Usually means: Subordinate serving under a lord.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word vassal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vassal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vassal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vassal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vassal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vassal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vassal, vassal: Wordnik
  7. vassal: Wiktionary
  8. vassal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vassal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vassal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vassal: Dictionary.com
  12. vassal (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Vassal (disambiguation), Vassal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Vassal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vassal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vassal: Rhymezone
  17. Vassal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vassal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Vassal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. vassal: Free Dictionary
  21. vassal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. vassal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. vassal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. vassal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vassal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. vassal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. VASSAL, VASSAL, VASSAL, VASSAL, VASSAL, VASSAL: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See vassals as well.)

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noun:  (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
noun:  (historical) Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
noun:  (figurative) Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
adjective:  Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
verb:  (transitive) To subordinate to someone or something.

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