feud

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo͞od, IPA^(key): /fjuːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fede, feide, *feithe, from Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), from Proto-Germanic *faihiþō (“hatred, enmity”), from Proto-Indo-European *pAik-, *pAig- (“ill-meaning, wicked”), equivalent to foe +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch vete (“feud”), German Fehde (“feud, vendetta”), Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”), Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”), and Old French faide, feide (“feud”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Related to foe, fiend.

Alternative forms

• fede (obsolete)

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

   You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

2. (professional wrestling slang) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

Related terms

• blood feud

Translations

A state of long-standing mutual hostility

• Bulgarian: кръвна вражда f (krǎ̀vna vraždá), вражда (bg) f (vraždá)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爭執 (zh), 争执 (zh) (zhēngzhí)

• Czech: svár m
• Dutch: vete (nl) c
• French: querelle (fr) f, (historical) faide (fr) f
• Georgian: შუღლი (šuḡli), მტრობა (mtroba), უსიამოვნება (usiamovneba)

• German: Fehde (de) f, Streit (de) m, Feindschaft (de) f
• Hungarian: viszály (hu)
• Japanese: 確執 (ja) (かくしつ, kakushitsu), フェーデ (fēde)
• Norwegian: feide (no) m
• Polish: wróżda f, waśń f
• Portuguese: rixa f
• Russian: вражда (ru) f (vraždá), междоусобица (ru) f (meždousóbica)
• Scots: feid
• Slovak: zvar m
• Spanish: rivalidad (es), pelea (es) f, enemistad (es) f, hostilidad (es) f

A staged rivalry between wrestlers

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• Dutch: vete (nl) f
• Finnish: sukuriita (family feud)
• French: inimitié (fr)

• Old English: fǣhþu f
• Telugu: తగాదా (te) (tagādā)

Verb

feud (third-person singular simple present feuds, present participle feuding, simple past and past participle feuded)

1. (intransitive) To carry on a feud.

   The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

Translations

to carry on a feud

• German: sich befehden

• Russian: враждовать (ru) (vraždovát')

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin feodum.

Alternative forms

• feod

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

1. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service

Synonyms

• fee
• fief

Translations

estate granted to a vassal

• Armenian: ավատ (avat)
• Catalan: feu (ca)
• Czech: léno (cs) n
• Dutch: leengoed
• French: fief (fr)
• German: Lehen n
• Greek: φέουδο (el) n (féoudo)

• Italian: feudo (it)
• Portuguese: feudo (pt)
• Romanian: feudă (ro)
• Russian: феод (ru) (feod), лен (ru) (len)
• Scots: feu
• Spanish: feudo (es)

Related terms

• feudal
• feudalism