manor
ma ner
- n the mansion of a lord or wealthy person
- n the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
- In the high-ceilinged library of an English manor house one rainy day this fall, a bony, white-haired priest in an oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter.
- Intense and charming, Philip dresses like a tattered English country squire, lives in a manor house whose living room has a copper floor and a ceiling made of floor boards.
- But it blossomed in lush profusion from the day in 1927 when Nazimova turned her once private domain into a super hostelry; 23 guest villas were added to the great stucco manor .