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manor
/ˈmænəɹ/
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What does manor mean?
noun
- A landed estate.
- The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
- A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
More meanings (9)
noun
- The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
- (slang) Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.
- (slang) One's neighbourhood.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A city in Travis County, Texas, United States.
- A township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A borough of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A town in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.
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IPA pronunciation
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Also, "The court-baron is a court incident to every manor, and is not of record, and the suitors be thereof judges."
“I think,” said he, after a moment’s pause, “that my brother proposed to confer upon his favourite the rich manor of Ivanhoe.”
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“Our Dickon,” they volunteered, was over at the Manor working in one of the gardens where he went several days each week.
When the carriage drove up to the gate of the Manor, Dorothea was out on the gravel, and came to greet them.
Underneath the wasp's brown paper manor house, the ground is channeled into a sort of drain for the refuse of the nest.