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manor

[man-er] / ˈmæn ər /
NOUN
large house
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DePree, an actor and filmmaker, argued a 2017 agreement with Rochdale Council gave him the option to buy the manor house after securing planning permission to restore and redevelop it.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Within days, Alison is invited to a colloquium of scholars in an English manor that has historic connections to Barton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

We’re in the middle of nowhere in the north of England in an old manor house where her wedding was.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

There was no sign of the Devil on the manor road or in the woods on either side.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025

Ersatz Georgian manors sit next to re-created country cottages next to mock Industrial Age warehouses, now filled with low-rise luxury flats — and a nursing home.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

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

Those who would enjoy drinking age-worthy wines are much more likely to live in fourth-floor walk-up apartments in Brooklyn or Tokyo than they are to occupy stately manors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020

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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