feud

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo͞od, IPA^(key): /fjuːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide/feide/fede, from Old High German fehida, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe +‎ -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”) was directly inherited from Proto-Germanic *faihiþō, and is cognate to Modern German Fehde, Dutch vete (“feud”), Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”), and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”).

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) 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: кръ́вна вражда́ f (krǎ́vna vraždá), вражда́ (bg) f (vraždá)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

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

  Min Nan: se3-siu5

• Czech: svár (cs) m
• Dutch: vete (nl) f, wraak (nl) f
• French: querelle (fr) f, (historical) faide (fr) f
• Georgian: შუღლი (šuɣli), მტრობა (mṭroba), უსიამოვნება (usiamovneba)
• German: Fehde (de) f, Streit (de) m, Feindschaft (de) f
• Greek: έριδα (el) f (érida)
• Hungarian: viszály (hu), összetűzés (hu)
• Italian: faida (it) f

• Japanese: 確執 (ja) (かくしつ, kakushitsu), フェーデ (fēde)
• Latin: simultās f
• Norwegian: feide (no) m
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wróżda (pl) f, waśń (pl) f
• Portuguese: rixa (pt) f
• Russian: вражда́ (ru) f (vraždá), междоусо́бица (ru) f (meždousóbica)
• Scots: feid
• Serbo-Croatian: zavada (sh) f
• Slovak: zvar m
• Spanish: rivalidad (es) f, pelea (es) f, enemistad (es) f, hostilidad (es) f
• Swedish: fejd (sv) c

A staged rivalry between wrestlers

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• 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 (de)

• Russian: враждова́ть (ru) (vraždovátʹ)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee.

Alternative forms

• feod

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

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

Synonyms

• fee
• fief

Related terms

• feudal
• feudalism

Translations

estate granted to a vassal

• Arabic: إِقْطَاعَة‎ (ʾiqṭāʿa)
• Armenian: ավատ (hy) (avat)
• Catalan: feu (ca)
• Czech: léno (cs) n
• Dutch: leengoed (nl)
• French: fief (fr)
• German: Lehen (de) n
• Greek: φέουδο (el) n (féoudo)
• Italian: feudo (it)

• Persian: تیول‎ (fa) (teyul)
• Portuguese: feudo (pt)
• Romanian: feudă (ro)
• Russian: феод (ru) (feod), лен (ru) (len)
• Scots: feu
• Serbo-Croatian: feud (sh) m
• Spanish: feudo (es)