Geneat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Geneat is a noun meaning (historical) A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
Meaning
(historical) A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
Example Sentences
The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile.
The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill.
In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land.
Word Forms
- geneats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tenant, vassal, retainer, feudatory, gavelman, legatee.
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