[
UK
/mˈænɐ/
]
[ US /ˈmænɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmænɝ/ ]
NOUN
- the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
- the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
How To Use manor In A Sentence
- Dot and I took some manchets about the manor to sell for charity, although she did all the talking.
- Where the lord of the manor had a demesne farm, the court appointed a reeve to supervise the farming activities, using labour services and collecting rents.
- The manor is a world away from the hustle and bustle of city life. The Sun
- The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
- She walked abroad daily in the Manor, and it was her custom to send me word whither she went, that Puck of Pook's Hill
- Usually one finds on a given manor that ten or fifteen of the villagers have each a virgate of a given number of acres, several more have each a half virgate or a quarter. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
- Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor.
- The homes will also be sympathetic to existing designs in Broome Manor Lane in that they will be two storey.
- replied the second voice, and with that, the soft whistle of a whippoorwill's call echoed around the manor.
- Some of the rooms depicted within Claverton Manor are considerably older than the house itself.