Usually means: Land granted for feudal service.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fief: Merriam-Webster
  2. fief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fief: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fief: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fief, fief: Wordnik
  7. fief: Wiktionary
  8. fief: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fief: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fief: Dictionary.com
  12. fief: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Fief: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fief: Rhymezone
  17. Fief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fief: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. fief: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fief: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fief: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FIEF: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fief: Legal dictionary

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  1. fief: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. FIEF: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FIEF: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fiefdom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fief)

noun:  (law, historical) Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.
noun:  (figurative) Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
noun:  (figurative) A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.

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