Other forms: manors
A manor is a large old country house with land around it. The manor house, lord of the manor, an Elizabethan manor.
In medieval law it was not a building at all but a unit of land held by a lord with tenants working it, and the house was only its centre. Manorial courts ran local justice for centuries. In London slang your manor is your patch. Note the Latin manere, to remain.
1nounmanorA large old country house with land.
“The lord of the manor lived in a big stone house surrounded by farmland.”
manor is a house and estate.
Old French manoir comes from Latin manere, to remain or dwell. Mansion and permanent share the root.
Proto-Indo-European
*men- (stay)
Latin
manēre
Old French
manoir
Middle English
maner
English, today
manor
From Middle English maner, manour; from Old French manoir, from earlier maneir, from Latin manēre. a doublet of maenor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA