Manor

['mænə] or ['mænɚ]

Definition

(noun.) the mansion of a lord or wealthy person.

(noun.) the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it).

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Definition

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Lordship, feudal estate of a nobleman.

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Definition

n. the land belonging to a nobleman or so much as he formerly kept for his own use: the district over which the court of the lord of the manor had authority: a tract of land in America for which a fee-farm rent was paid.—ns. Man′or-house -seat the house or seat belonging to a manor.—adj. Manō′rial pertaining to a manor.

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