manor
IPA: mˈænɝ
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.
- The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
- (UK, slang) Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.
- (London, slang) One's neighbourhood.
- 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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Examples of "manor" in Sentences
- She is also the maid in the manor.
- The lady of the manor gave feasts.
- The manor house is huge and beautiful.
- The current lords of the manor are here.
- This is the current configuration of the manor.
- â⠂ ¬Å What do you mean this manor is mine, Uncle.
- A group of itinerant actors then arrives at the manor.
- At the time, the manor was in very dilapidated condition.
- If Snape grows up with the Princes in a manor is he Snape?
- The acreage of the manor's woodland grew by the end of the 18th Century.
- In the twelfth century the manor passed to the abbot of Waltham Holy Cross.
- For many centuries the manor house was a secondary home of the Bullock family.
- To have things that are hand made in a traditional manor is a great luxury in itself.
- What I called a manor house was really more like a village completely enclosed within a single blockish structure.
- Calling someone gay in a debasing manor is offensive and it's obvious from your first comment that was the direction you meant it.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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/.