Definition of "manor house" []

• The main house on an estate. (noun)
• The house of the lord of a manor. (noun)

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• "The manor house was afterwards known as Copped or Copt Hall."
• ""To Chartley Manor, an almost-new manor house not far away, belonging to the Earl of Essex.""
• "The manor house lay a little aside from the village and the church, timber-built on the stone undercroft, in level, well-drained fields, with gentle wooded slopes beyond."