fee
Forms
- Plural
- fees
- present (v1)
- fee
- past (v2)
- feed
- past participle (v3)
- feed
- present participle
- feeing
- 3rd person singular
- fees
Definitions
1.An amount charged for a privilege.
2.An amount charged for professional services.
3.An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
4.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).
1.To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1923
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).