Manors is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANORS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MANOR, the manor house of a lord and the lands attached to it
• a large country house with lands
• (in North America) an estate or district leased to tenants, especially one granted by royal charter in a British colony or by the Dutch governors of what is now New York State.
• the district covered by a police station
• (in England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and lands rented to tenants
• one's own neighbourhood or area of operation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a landed estate or territorial unit

Words related to MANORS

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How to use MANORS in a sentence

• Many, even in the most privileged places, were attached to particular manors.
• And yet the biographers of Washington trace his family to the knights and squires who held manors by grant of kings and nobles of England, centuries ago.
• He even wrested away from Odo, half-brother of the Conqueror, the manors he held as Count of Kent, which originally belonged to the See of Canterbury.
• And there were no large manors with ancient tower-ornamented castles.
• It would be wrong, however, to suppose that the manors entirely lost their self-government.
• With the creation of manors the total amount of land under cultivation increased, though not the amount of grain-producing land.
• Queen Elizabeth obtained a lease of the manors and coal mines of Gateshead and Whickham, which she soon transferred to the Earl of Leicester.
• In short, the Maryland manors began and ended much as the Virginia particular plantations had done before them.
• They had manors on the Severn, at Berkeley, and the earl would go there to save them if possible from plunder.
• There were many manors whose English lords had died, and they must own Danish masters.
• The Van Rensselaer, the Van Cortlandt, and the Livingston manors were so large and populous that each was entitled to send a representative to the provincial legislature.
• The above-mentioned manors are charged with rents from five to an hundred pounds each.
• In short, most manors were in a state of anarchy, and their lords on the verge of ruin.
• If the manor house belonged to the owner of many manors, it was sometimes inhabited by his bailiff.
• He sought to conduct a second Conquest, making war on the English who still held their lands, but sparing the French manors.
• Her father had died in the winter and the great fortune and wide manors of the family were now her own.
• Many of them borrowed large sums, or sold off manors, that they might appear in the field with greater splendor, and lead out their followers in more complete order.
• At the time of the general survey the family of Ermyn, or Armyn, possessed numerous manors in Nottinghamshire, and several in the shire of Lincoln.
• Queen Eleanor claimed one of the manors, but was not able to make good her claim.
• He was a great benefactor to the church and manors of the see, and gave much plate for the service of the minster.
• The result of these influences was to develop in the South a system of large ill-worked manors or estates.
• Besides all this, many manors, houses, deeds, and claims which she possessed in Italy.
• The rambling houses on the banks of the James, the Rappahannock, and the Potomac, built on the model of English manors, had their libraries and picture-galleries.
• This was one of those marvelous manors of the middle ages, with walls twenty feet in thickness, and a hundred in height.
• I deal not with your lords of manors and mortgages.

Similar words containing MANOR without suffix s

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