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manor /ˈmanə /noun British1 (also manor house) A large country house with lands: a Tudor manor house in the English countryside Kelmscott Manor...- Agecroft Hall, a Tudor manor house, was shipped to the United States piece by piece and now draws 20,000 visitors each year.
- In the past, the country manor house welcomed gentry for deer hunting.
- It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley.
1.1chiefly historical (In England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants: the right to mine ores within the manor of Little Langdale...- In English Ireland they were associated with the reorganization of the land into manors with demesne land and dependent tenants, based to some extent on English models.
- Bound to the land, they could not leave the manor without the lord's consent.
- Serfs worked the land and produced the goods that the lord and his manor needed.
2 (one's manor) informal The district covered by a police station: they were the undisputed rulers of their manor 2.1One’s own neighbourhood or area of operation. Derivatives manorial /məˈnɔːrɪəl / adjective ...- Penn was a feudal lord who could create manorial courts; furthermore, Penn could not transfer his royally delegated powers to the people, but only to a deputy such as himself.
- Many features of manorial jurisdiction as practised in 1280 cannot have gone back more than a hundred years, because they so plainly echoed recent developments in superior courts.
- It also gives the manorial net income (referred to as the ‘annual value’) and tax assessment.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French maner 'dwelling', from Latin manere 'remain'. Rhymes Alana, Anna, bandanna, banner, Branagh, canna, canner, Diana, fanner, Fermanagh, Guyana, Hannah, Havana, hosanna, Indiana, Joanna, lanner, Louisiana, manna, manner, Montana, nana, planner, Pollyanna, Rosanna, savannah, scanner, spanner, Susanna, tanner |