manors
Feudal country seats
Manors is the plural of manor, a large country house with surrounding land, historically the estate of a feudal lord.
The term evokes aristocratic wealth and rural grandeur: stately manors dotting the English countryside.
In British slang, manor means one's home turf or neighborhood: Stay off my manor.
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- victorianOf 19th-century Britain
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- timberedContaining trees or beams
- gabledWith triangular roof ends
turreted · moated · gatehouse · dovecote · orangery · buttery · parlor · solarium
Lord's private estate
- landholdingOwned piece of terrain
- groundsBasis for justification
- acreageAmount of land owned
- parklandLand designated as park
gardens · orchards · woodlands · tenant farms · deer park · fishponds · millpond · stables
Nobleman or ruler
- ladyCourteous term for woman
- seigneurFeudal landowning noble
- vassalLand-holding sworn subordinate
- serfBonded agricultural laborer
peasant · tenantry · villein · fief · feudalism · nobility · gentry · landed
hall
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gabled · turreted · moated · gatehouse · dovecote · orangery · buttery · parlor · solarium · chapel
demesne
Lord's private estate
- landholdingOwned piece of terrain
- groundsBasis for justification
- acreageAmount of land owned
parkland · gardens · orchards · woodlands · tenant farms · deer park · fishponds · millpond · stables · outbuildings
lord
Nobleman or ruler
serf · peasant · tenantry · villein · fief · feudalism · nobility · gentry · landed · aristocracy
historic
Of lasting significance
tour · museum · stately · ancestral · heirloom · antiquarian · archive · genealogy · lineage · dynasty
palatial
Lavishly grand and spacious
- opulentOstentatiously wealthy
- magnificentExceptionally beautiful or impressive
- statelyGrand and imposing
imposing · splendid · elegant · lavish · sumptuous · regal · majestic · grand · refined · ornate
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- rural lodgingsfarmhouse, cottage, cabin, country cottage, country inn
- Norman EraNormans, William the Conqueror, Norman conquest, Domesday Book, Battle of Hastings
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- Medieval Eraknights, Middle Ages, castles, feudal lords, medieval period
- Medieval Europekings, queens, knights, castles, castle
- manor houseLanded gentry's residence
- country manorLarge rural aristocratic home
- stately manor
- lord of the manorFeudal estate holder
- to the manor bornInnately suited to privilege
- lady of the manorEstate's female owner