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• n  extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
• n  territory over which rule or control is exercised

• Young George Merck grew up in the pleasant country demesne of Llewellyn Park, spent his summers sailing in his father's naphtha launch on Lake Hopatcong, traveling abroad or .
• The demesne was walled, wooded, beyond our ken; the bog was rushy and treacherous, no place for children.
• Today, Purser rules as the beneficent panjandrum of a small yet stately demesne there, employing hundreds of villagers and subcontracting to thousands more throughout Java, Bali .

• estate
• land
• landed estate
• acres
• domain

Quotes

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• Robert Moore in Londonderry Today
  But most alarmingly of all perhaps would be the potential damage to an area considered by the NIEA a "demesne of special historic interest" and for good reason as Mr Moore explains.