(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(3) The manor house in The Private Patient has been sold by its ancestral owners to cover their debts and bought by self-made plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
(4) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(5) Sue Manor, 66, of Hendersonville, spoke of her "agonising" wait for the all-clear.
(6) Campaigning in Averham and Bingham, Helmer criticised the personal wealth of Jenrick, who has a Herefordshire manor, and two properties in London as well as a rented place near Newark.
(7) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(8) Photograph: Adam Gerrard Dr David Drew A former clinical director of Walsall Manor hospital, Dr David Drew was dismissed in December 2010 after voicing concerns about what he said was a huge cost-cutting exercise.
(9) The location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.
(10) This article presents a brief account of the University of Evansville's use of Harlaxton Manor, located in England.
(11) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(12) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(13) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(14) …………………………………………………… We were Bronzeville girls until I was three and Denise six; then we moved to Park Manor.
(15) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
(16) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(17) HS2 will pass close to the modest housing estates of west Aylesbury and at a more respectful distance from Waddesdon Manor, a French chateau built on a wooded hill by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874.
(18) Woolhope Woodheat plans to install its first boiler at Canon Frome Court , a community of about 50 people living in a Georgian manor and 40-acre organic farm in Herefordshire.
(19) Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks.
(20) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
Mansion
Definition:
(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(3) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(4) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(5) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(6) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
(7) Here I am sitting in Hampstead, looking at a mansion tax coming towards me and I might not like it, but that’s the deal,” he said.
(8) The party has set out plans to make work pay by introducing a new 10p tax rate to be funded by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m.
(9) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(10) He hailed the party's commitment to lift low and average earners out of tax, and rounded on those who criticised the Lib Dems' proposed "mansion tax" – a tax on properties worth over £2m – as an attack on "ordinary middle-class owners", saying: "You wonder what part of the solar system they live in."
(11) As the Lib Dems came under their most sustained scrutiny in years, their proposal for a 1% a year "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m was questioned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned that the policy might backfire and raise £330m less than the £1.7bn annually that the party claims it will raise.
(12) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(13) How Balls achieves his £1.2bn from a mansion tax is a mystery.
(14) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
(15) A bomb scare on Wednesday prompted a large security operation to be launched on Thursday to protect the former president as he travelled from his mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad.
(16) In his last speech as governor of the Bank of England, King told the Mansion House audience: "I welcome your announcement that Lloyds Banking Group will be returned to private hands soon.
(17) The mansion tax uses Balls’s £3,000 limit up to £3m and charges 0.25% of value thereafter.
(18) A wealthy Russian recently summoned the capital's best commercial lawyers to a Mayfair mansion to bid "for what could potentially be the biggest case of their careers".
(19) They would rather talk about a clodhopping, low-revenue mansion tax that is unlikely to happen than a fair, easy and lucrative extension of council tax, over which they would have less control.
(20) He only had eyes for the Post mansion and Palm Beach.