manor house
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English
Noun
manor house (plural manor houses)
- (UK) The main house on a landed estate.
- Coordinate term: country house
- Near-synonyms: great house, great hall
- The house of the lord of the manor.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
- Many of the houses have neat little dormer windows and tall stone chimneys, and Corfe's older buildings include the fine old manor house.
Translations
main house on a landed estate
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house of the lord of the manor
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