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fee

noun
/fiː/

Etymology

From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäi (“cattle, livestock”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Cimbrian biighe, viighe (“animal, beast”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), German Viech (“animal, beast”), Vieh (“livestock”), German Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Luxembourgish Véi (“cattle”), Vilamovian fi, fī, fii, fiih (“cattle, livestock”), Yiddish פֿי (fi), פֿיך (fikh, “cattle, livestock”), Danish and Faroese fæ (“cattle, livestock”), Icelandic fé (“assets, livestock, money”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fe (“cattle, livestock”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu, “possessions, property; riches, wealth; money”); also Latin pecū (“cattle”), Old Prussian pecku (“cattle”), Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece, wool”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu, “livestock”), Bactrian ποσο (poso, “sheep”), Central Kurdish پەز (pez, “sheep”), Northern Kurdish pez (“sheep”), Ossetian фыс (fys, “sheep”), Talysh pəs, пәс (“sheep”), Sanskrit पशु (paśu, “cattle”).

  1. inherited from *péḱu✻ — “livestock”
  2. inherited from *fehu✻ — “cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”
  3. derived from *fehu✻ — “cattle, livestock”
  4. derived from fevum
  5. derived from fieu
  6. inherited from feoh
  7. inherited from fee

Definitions

  1. An amount charged for a privilege.

    • late fee
    • license fee
    • admission fee

  2. An amount charged for professional services.

    • legal fees
    • consulting fees

  3. An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is…

    An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs…

      An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).

    2. A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be…

      A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.

    3. Synonym of fief

      Synonym of fief: the land so held.

    4. An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of…

      An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.

    5. Synonym of possession.

      • Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
      • Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

    6. Money paid or bestowed

      Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.

    7. A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

      • For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.

    8. To reward for services performed, or to be performed

      To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

      • In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise
      • There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.
      • We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.

    9. A surname.

    10. A diminutive of the female given name Fiona.

      • Then turning to Fiona, she said, “Fee, I'll only be a minute. […]

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Derived

absolute fee simple, advance fee fraud, advance fee scam, alms-fee, amenity fee, attorney's fee, base fee, bullet fee, composition fee, conditional fee, convenience fee, court fee, defeasible fee, destination fee, entry fee, exit fee, facility fee, feeable, feebate, fee-fees, fee fees, fee-for-service, feeless, feepayer, feepaying, fee schedule, fee simple, fee splitting, fee-splitting, fee tail, feevee, filing fee, finder's fee, frank-fee, gas fee, great fee, handling fee, in fee, in-lieu fee, joining fee · +20 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fee. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fee. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at fee

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA