manor house
4
6.0
- noun
- /ˈmænər haʊs/
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casa solariega
- "Up there," she said and pointed to the mountain behind the manor house.
It was like big Manor house type place in Italy.
- It was like big Manor house type place in Italy.
- Then we got to this real big Manor house and the woman came out to me at the Sydney garden.
Examples
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Sometime in 1709, an English country gentleman by the name of William Freke sat down at his desk in the library of his family's manor house in the sleepy village of Hinton Saint Mary in Dorset to write a book.
Academic text (2018) -
"It's not so difficult to do, and there is a fair amount of land attached to the manor house."
Fiction book (1996) -
Just think, our very own English manor house.
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The taxi let them off in front of the manor house, which looked enormous.
Fiction book (1998) -
Belmore is the only manor house in the county.
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Delia and I are throwing a special party for her at the manor house on Sunday.
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Presently, they passed a many-cupolaed manor house, apparently uninhabited and in the process of decay.
Fiction book (1993) -
The house was an American version of an English manor house, Tudor style, with exposed beams and mullioned windows with tiny panes.
Fiction book (1991) -
By the time Redmond completed construction of his manor house, he had new neighbors to the east, on the "Pearmont" tract that had been part of Bedford.
Academic text (2015) -
The wedding ceremony took place in a beautifully restored manor house surrounded by lush gardens.
Synonyms
327
3.4
A very large, impressive house often with many rooms and gardens
67
5.8
A large country house often the home of a rich family
55
3.2
A large fancy house in the countryside or suburbs that people use as a holiday home
16
8.2
A large impressive country house in France, often like a small castle
15
3.4
A large house in the countryside with its own land
2
9.9
A large old German castle or grand house often visited by tourists
2
5.7
A large, impressive house in the country owned by a rich family
1
4.0
A very large, impressive house where a rich family lives
A large house with land in the countryside that is the main home of a family
How Big
- UK
2
5.7
327
3.4
4
6.0
15
3.4
∞
1.0
171
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'manor' (a grand residence associated with a manor) + 'house' (a dwelling), yielding a large country residence. This straightforward noun–noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun manor house comes from a time when a local lord lived in the main house on his manor, the land he owned. So the name came to mean a large country 'house' belonging to a wealthy landowner.