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manor house

American  

noun

  1. the house of the lord of a manor.


manor house British  

noun

  1. (esp formerly) the house of the lord of a manor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of manor house

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

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Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect, had recently moved into an apartment in a converted manor house when she essentially vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

A 14-year-old girl has been arrested after a fire engulfed an abandoned Grade I-listed manor house that had stood for hundreds of years in Liverpool.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025

In the lush countryside linking off radar Corrèze to the Lot region in Southwest France, almost hugging the banks of the Dordogne river, a striking 19th-century manor house recently underwent a dramatic reconstruction.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

He gave a pair of recitals on the day, one at the manor house in Zelazowa Wola where Chopin was born in 1810, now a museum, and the other at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024

In the manor house, which was paved with tomblike slabs, the sun was never seen.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez