English-Spanish translations for vassal

• vasallo
  Nepal todavía no es un Estado vasallo. Yet Nepal is not a vassal state.
  Convertir a Europa en el vasallo de los EE.UU. es totalmente inaceptable. To turn Europe into a vassal of the United States is completely unacceptable.
  Somos sus colegas, pero no sus vasallos ni, mucho menos, sus criados. We are their friends, but we do not wish to be their vassals and still less their lackeys.
• avasallar

Definition of vassal

• The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant
• Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile
• To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave

Related words

• vassalage
• subvassal
• vassal state