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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

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

Beyond, he could see the manor house against a dark forest which crowned the hills far, far away.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

The protagonist of James’s era — the scholar in his dim library — was supplanted in our imaginations by curious young women roaming gloomy manors and innocently unleashing hell.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 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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