Except for the king, every noble in a feudal society served as a <u>vassal </u>to a higher noble. The vassal in medieval Europe, was a man who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to an older man or is more important. They made a feudal contract that was an exchange of promises between lords and vassals. In feudal society was the monarch, then the powerful lords who had vassals.
Usually, these extra meanings are called, "connotations" since they are not explicitly stated, but the reader can take away a wide variety of meaning from them.
