Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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. In colonial times these resembled the old English manors, their possession being in most cases accompanied by jurisdiction.
Wiktionary
- 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. London, slang One's neighbourhood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
- n. the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
Etymologies
- From Old French manoir. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French maneir, manoir, to dwell, manor, from Latin manēre, to remain; see men-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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/.”
“If Snape grows up with the Princes in a manor is he Snape?”
“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
“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
“To have things that are hand made in a traditional manor is a great luxury in itself.”
SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Behnaz Sarafpour Organic Collection | Inhabitat
“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 ...”
“â⠂ ¬Å What do you mean this manor is mine, Uncle.”
“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.”
“What I called a manor house was really more like a village completely enclosed within a single blockish structure.”
“I could fill another book with anecdotes, telling how I took possession of Beacon Street, and learned to distinguish the lord of the manor from the butler in full dress.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manor’.
-
Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
-
gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 323 more...
-
The Secret Garden
sickly, fretful, toddle, cross, stammer, manor, slink, grind, disdain, imploringly, wring, wailing and 30 more...
-
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
-
Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
-
cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
-
tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
-
5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
-
jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
-
household words
oikonomia, domain, menage, mansion, manor, manse, demesne, menial, arsenal, haft, decumbence, katoikountes and 68 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for manor.
jmjarmstrong JM knows a man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. May 25, 2011