Manor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A landed estate.
  • n. The main house on an estate; a mansion.
  • n. A tract of land in certain North American colonies with hereditary rights granted to the proprietor by royal charter.
  • n. The district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
  • n. The lord's residence in such a district.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A landed estate.
  • n. The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
  • n. A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
  • n. The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
  • n. One's neighbourhood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
  • n. A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 1. A dwelling; habitation.
  • n. In England, generally, a landed estate, especially one the tenure of which vests the proprietor with some particular rights of lordship; specifically, in old law, a lordship or barony held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction of a court-baron held by him; in more ancient usage, an estate of a lord or thane with a village community, generally in serfdom, upon it. See villeinage and yard-land.
  • n. The jurisdiction of a court-baron or court of the lord of a manor.
  • n. In some of the United States formed by English colonies, a tract of land occupied or once occupied by tenants paying a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes in stipulated services. Burrill.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
  • n. the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
  • Equivalent
    manor seat   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hall    manse    mansion    residence    mansion house    demesne    land    landed estate    acres    estate   
    Cross Reference
    fief    feudalism   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tanner    banner    branner    canner    manner    planner    scanner    spanner    tanner   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mansion    chateau    estate    homestead    monastery    township    residence    borough    inn    plantation