ศักดินา

n. feudalism;

land, counted in ไร่, given by the sovereign to a nobleman, in accordance with his rank. In the years before the Revolution of 1932, after which titles of nobility were no longer conferred, such gifts of land were only nominal.

ทุกคนได้ถูกขูดรีดมาแล้วไม่มากก็น้อยโดยชนชั้นศักดินาและนายทุน Everyone had been, more or less, hard-pressed by the lords and the capitalists.