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manor

[man-er] / ˈmæn ər /
NOUN
large house
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Dreams of living in a Georgian manor house with 15 acres of grounds would usually be associated with a big lottery win.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

In Wales, the series could showcase new places, like Llanvihangel Court, which became the Holmes family’s historic countryside manor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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

With any luck, the centaur hadn’t run a seismology test on the manor grounds, or his ruse might be discovered.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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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