Liege

Noun

 * 1) A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
 * 2) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

Adjective

 * 1) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
 * 2) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
 * 3) Full; perfect; complete; pure.

Thesaurus
ardent, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, boss, bwana, captive, chattel, chattel slave, chef, chief, church dignitary, churl, client, concubine, constant, creature, debt slave, dependent, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, feudal, feudatory, flunky, follower, galley slave, goodman, guru, hanger-on, helot, homager, husband, inferior, lackey, liege lord, liege man, liege subject, lord, lord paramount, loyal, master, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, overlord, padrone, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, peon, rabbi, resolute, retainer, sahib, seigneur, seignior, serf, servant, servile, slave, starets, staunch, steadfast, stooge, subject, subordinate, subservient, teacher, theow, thrall, tributary, true, underling, understrapper, vassal, villein, yeoman

Etymology
lege, lige, liege from lige from  liege "liege, free", of  origin, from  ledic, ledec "free, empty, vacant" (Modern  ledig "unmarried") from. Akin to leþeg, leþoch "free",  liþiġ "flexible",  liðugr "free, unhindered",  ledich "idle, unemployed", Middle English lethi "unoccupied, at leisure".

An alternate etymology traces the Old French word from laeticus "of or relating to a semifree colonist in Gaul" from laetus "a semi-free colonist", of  origin, akin to  læt "servant".

Noun

 * Finnish: lääninherra
 * German:


 * Macedonian:, феудалец, земјопоседник


 * Finnish:
 * German: Gefolgsmann ; Vasall


 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian:

Adjective

 * French:


 * Macedonian:


 * French:


 * Macedonian: вазален

Related terms

 * liege lord
 * liegeman

Noun

 * 1) daybed
 * 2) couch

Related terms

 * liegen