vavasour
/ˈvavəsʊə/noun
vavasour is a noun meaning “a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-V-A-S-O-U-R, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vavasour is vavasours.
What does vavasour mean?
noun
- 1
a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vavasour?
- UK /ˈvavəsʊə/
- UK /ˈvavəsɔː/
- UK /ˈvavəsə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vavasour
- vavasours plural
- valvassor
- vavassor
- vavasor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vavasour?
Vavasour appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vavasour come from?
From Middle English vavasour, from Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).