manor

English

Alternative forms

• manour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French manoir.

Pronunciation

• Homophones: manner, manna

Noun

manor (plural manors)

1. A landed estate.
2. The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
3. A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
4. The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
5. (UK, slang) Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.

Related terms

• manorial
• manorialism
• manor house
• manorless

Translations

landed estate

Armenian: կալվածք (hy) (kalvaçk’) Estonian: mõis (et) Finnish: kartano (fi) French: manoir (fr)

German: Manor (de) n., Herrenhaus (de) n. Russian: поместье (ru) (pom'ést'je) n. Serbo-Croatian: feud (sh)

mansion

Finnish: kartano (fi) French: manoir, maison-forte

Portuguese: solar (pt), mansão (pt) Russian: особняк (ru) (osobn'ák) m.

feudal district

Armenian: կալվածք (hy) (kalvaçk’) Finnish: läänitys German: Lehen (de) n.

Portuguese: feudo (pt) m. Russian: поместье (pom'ést'je) n. Serbo-Croatian: leno (sh)

seat of control of feudal district

Finnish: kartano (fi), linna (fi) Portuguese: feudo (pt) m.

Russian: поместье (pom'ést'je) n.

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• Estonian: mõis
• Japanese: 荘園　(しょうえん)

See also

• feudalism
• fief

Anagrams

• moran, Moran
• morna
• norma, Norma
• roman, Roman

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Latin

Verb

mānor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of mānō