manor

5 letters in word "manor": A M N O R.

Anagrams of manor:

• maron

• norma

• roman

Words found within manor:

am an ar arm ma man mano mar mna mo moa moan mon mona mor mora morn na nam no nom noma nor norm oar om on or ora ram ran roam roan rom roma

• Definitions:
• the mansion of a lord or wealthy person the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
• Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain, majoring in sales from groceries to electrical appliances. Other than that, Manor also offers a special wedding service, including general consulting, wedding, honeymoon planning and so on.
• A small holding, typically from 1,200 to 1,800 acres, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily having a manor house. The manor as a unit of land was generally held by a knight (knight's fee) or managed by a bailiff for some other holder.
• manerium, mansio Equivalent to a single holding, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily a manor house as we think of it. The manor was the basic unit of Domesday.
• In medieval England, an estate (unit of land) under the jurisdiction of a lord of the manor. Usually, part of the manor, known as the demesne, was retained by the lord for his own profit, while the remainder was granted to tenants in return either for rent or for services such as cultivating his ...
• mansion or main house on an estate, as in: He returned to the ancestral manor every spring.
• an agricultural estate under the control of a single individual or lord.
• A feudal freehold estate. Manors varied considerably in size, but usually the lord of the manor, or his deputy, presided over a manor court, which administered the manor lands and controlled the manor tenants. Since manors were held in fee simple, they passed automatically from the lord to his heir.
• The granting of land with a demense, peasants and lands considered requisite to sustain a minor noble. The demense was the lord’s personal land, providing for their needs, while the land worked by the peasants provided additional income or food consumed by the lord or his retainers.
• Estate held by a lord and farmed by tenants who owed him rents and services, and whose relations with him were governed by his manorial court. ...
• An estate in fee granted by the Crown, before the passing of the Statute Quia Emptores in 1290. This definition cannot, however, be applied in all its strictness to manors in Wales and the Marches, owing to special circumstances of their history. ...
• An estate held by a Lord or Lady of the Manor, consisting of demesne land belonging specifically to the Lord and various holdings let out to tenants, the whole being governed by a manorial court according to customs established since time immemorial. ...
• A group of lands, not necessarily geographically contiguous, managed as an economic and administrative unit. Typically between 500 and 3000 acres in size, the manor is controlled by a lord who, if not the king, holds the estate by some form of land tenure from another lord. ...
• The basic economic, management and judicial unit held by a tenant. A manor could equate to a vill, contain several vills, or be a subset of vill. Smaller tenants may hold just one manor. The greatest aristocrats held scores all over the country.
• The district over which the court of a Lord of the Manor had authority

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