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• n  a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

• A former princely vassal to the Syrian Assad regime, he switched his loyalties to the Bush administration after the invasion of Iraq, when it briefly seemed like American military .
• Nothing infuriates Koreans more than the suggestion that America sees them simply as a vassal state to be ordered around, and the South Korean ire directed against the Hollywood .
• The Turks ruled the Magyars for 170 years, and when at last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the .

• liege
• liegeman
• liege subject
• feudatory

News & Articles

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• Chattanoogan.com - Chattanooga's source for breaking local news
  Okay, so it isn't John Lennon or Paul McCartney, but I got an ear worm listening to Mrs. Becky Gerritson, of the Wetumpka Tea Party, remind members of Congress she's a free American as she stated to the House Ways and Means Committee of our United States Congress "I'm not here as a serf or a vassal.
  June 9, 2013 - The Chattanoogan

Quotes

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• Francois Fillon in Independent
  M. Fillon said that France would remain what it had always been, "an ally of Washington but not its vassal...... supportive, but not subordinate".
• Steve Clemons in PRESS TV
  The administration "thinks the Saudis are no longer behaving the role of the good vassal," said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.
• Zbigniew Brzezinski in Antiwar.com
  In a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed ("Imperial Russia, Vassal Ukraine") former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote the following sentence, directed at the Russian leadership.