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).
Checked by Adrienne--From WordNet
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.
Edited by Jeremy
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.
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She keeps her dark old manor-house light and bright with her cheery presence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. and Mrs. Casaubon, returning from their wedding journey, arrived at Lowick Manor in the middle of January. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He gave her his arm back to the Manor, but Dorothea did not attempt to speak, even when he said good-night. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Manor Farm, Dingley Dell,' said Mr. Pickwick, consulting his pocket- book. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We are going to Riding Thorpe Manor, said he, but we have heard nothing of what has passed there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At Ferndean, a manor-house on a farm he has, about thirty miles off: quite a desolate spot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She had no experience beyond her father's cottage; and the mansion of the lord of the manor was the chiefest type of grandeur she could conceive. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He left the letter at the office, ordering the messenger to carry it to Lowick Manor, and wait for an answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Welcome,' said their hospitable host, throwing it open and stepping forward to announce them, 'welcome, gentlemen, to Manor Farm. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That's Riding Thorpe Manor, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have sent a letter to Lowick Manor to-day, asking leave to see you, said Will, seating himself opposite to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Front-de-Boeuf, replied John, is a man more willing to swallow three manors such as Ivanhoe, than to disgorge one of them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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