Definition of "manor" []

• A landed estate. (noun)
• The main house on an estate; a mansion. (noun)
• A tract of land in certain North American colonies with hereditary rights granted to the proprietor by royal charter. (noun)
• The district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. (noun)
• The lord's residence in such a district. (noun)

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• "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/."
• "If Snape grows up with the Princes in a manor is he Snape?"
• "Calling someone gay in a debasing manor is offensive and it's obvious from your first comment that was the direction you meant it."