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manor

[man-er] / ˈmæn ər /
NOUN
large house
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Only two years after being in the Championship and in their first ever Grand Final, Wakefield took to the Old Trafford stage as if they were to the manor born.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Hosted by the Duke of Richmond at his country manor, the event saw the largest stand belonging to China’s BYD, which is now taking on Europe’s storied brands on their home turf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

His father Gyozo Orban, who is 85, owns several building material companies as well as the historic Hatvanpuszta estate he had rebuilt into a luxurious manor worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

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

I had had my picture taken on the first day, wearing something my mother had put together for me, something between Little House on the Prairie and British manor attire.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Think of the manors in “Clue,” or “Murder By Death.”

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025

Reminders of these painful histories are visible in the buildings dotting Kharkiv’s streets, from aristocratic manors to Stalinist neoclassical structures, cathedrals, monuments to poets, and modern-era cultural centers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2022

But Moorish-style manors, with horseshoe arches and keyhole windows, often sit beside boxy, white, Bauhaus-inspired villas on the coastal escarpment, so the discomfort is probably worth it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

During these decades, ornate office buildings, regal academic buildings and grand manors sprouted across the city and the region, largely because of the ingenuity of Albert Kahn.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

He wrote more about Ayortha than I ever wished to know: how the guilds were structured; the number of gallons of milk produced in a year by one Ayorthaian cow; the construction of their manors.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine


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