ˈmanə(r) noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English maner, from Old French manoir habitation, manor, from manoir to sojourn, dwell, from Latin manēre to remain, sojourn — more at mansion
1.
a. : the house or hall of an estate : mansion
quarreled good-naturedly over the location of the manor — Frank Yerby
b. : the house of a lord with the land belonging to it : a landed estate
2.
a.
(1) : a unit of English rural territorial organization ; especially : a unit of English social, economic, and administrative organization in the middle ages consisting of an estate under a lord enjoying a variety of rights over land and tenants including the right to hold court and usually having tenants of varying degrees of freedom and servitude and marked by a large degree of economic self-sufficiency
(2) : a basically similar unit of social, economic, and administrative organization varying in specific features from region to region (as in medieval Europe)
b. : a tract of land in No. America occupied by tenants who pay a fee-farm rent to the proprietor ; specifically : a tract of land in New York granted by the king of Great Britain in colonial days either by patent or in confirmation of grants from the States-General of Holland to proprietors holding by perpetual rent in money or in kind