geneat

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent. historical
    — The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile.

词形变化

geneat plural geneats plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English ġenēat (“companion, follower, follower in battle; dependant, vassal, tenant who works for a lord”). Cognate with German Genosse (“comrade, etc.”)
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