Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A landed estate.
- noun The main house on an estate; a mansion.
- noun A tract of land in certain North American colonies with hereditary rights granted to the proprietor by royal charter.
- noun The district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
- noun The lord's residence in such a district.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 1. A dwelling; habitation.
- noun 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. - noun The jurisdiction of a court-baron or court of the lord of a manor.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Law) 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.
- noun (American Law) 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.
- noun the house belonging to a manor; the house of the lord of the manor; a manse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
landed estate . - noun The main
house of such an estate or a similar residence; amansion . - noun A
district over which afeudal lord couldexercise certainrights andprivileges inmedieval western Europe . - noun The lord's
residence and seat of control in such a district. - noun London, slang One's
neighbourhood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
- noun the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CL y, Br. R, fartition that tenements are held of the nanorof B* which is ancient demeAic, and im pleadable in the court of the manor by writ of right; replicaaoq, that plaintiff's great-grandfather held tenements of the king as of his caftle of W« in free focage; and traverfes, that they were held of the manor* AT/.
A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice ... 1797
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If Snape grows up with the Princes in a manor is he Snape?
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Calling someone gay in a debasing manor is offensive and it's obvious from your first comment that was the direction you meant it.
Zack Snyder’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole Retitled Legend of the Guardians | /Film 2010
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Some communities maintained a common sleeping room, whereas other monasteries were broken up into smaller units based on the upper class familia — small households which mimicked the secular clustering of women's quarters in manor houses and castles. 99 Still others provided individual cells for the nuns.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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To have things that are hand made in a traditional manor is a great luxury in itself.
SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Behnaz Sarafpour Organic Collection | Inhabitat 2007
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Bottom line: to survive in the dangerous world of freelancing, you need to have your lance sharpened and your faithful steed well-shod ... and you need to contact your Guild whenever the lord of the manor is shortchanging you ...
Archive 2007-03-01 Steve Hulett 2007
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Bottom line: to survive in the dangerous world of freelancing, you need to have your lance sharpened and your faithful steed well-shod ... and you need to contact your Guild whenever the lord of the manor is shortchanging you ...
"Freelance" is not a magic word Jeff Massie 2007
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â⠂ ¬Å What do you mean this manor is mine, Uncle.
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The thought of turning descriptions of the town and manor from the book I'm writing into a MUD area has crossed my mind, but there's a lot of other work to do too that I think I would rather not do.
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What I called a manor house was really more like a village completely enclosed within a single blockish structure.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
jmjarmstrong commented on the word manor
JM knows a man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
May 25, 2011