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manor

[man-er] / ˈmæn ər /
NOUN
large house
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Nearby, the ultra-private Villa Maçakizi feels more like a manor home than a hotel, with 10 bedrooms and an infinity pool overlooking the bay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

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

Fully half the villagers ran away from the manor road, but the other half ran toward it, making sure the priest and the holy water preceded them.

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

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

Alongside alluring beaches, the remnants of those manors stand today, many of them in various stages of crumbling.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 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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