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manors

noun

plural of manor

as in mansions

a large impressive residence the old family manor has 117 rooms

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Recent Examples of manors For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages. — Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026 And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix. — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026 Blackwood, with her firsthand knowledge of drafty manors and unhinged families, explains with remorseless precision what lies behind the fantasy—what happens when the houses, and the people in them, are neither charismatic nor lovable. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026 Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026 Virginia‘s countryside is dotted with traditional farmhouses and manors, but one in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains has been given a contemporary twist by a New York architect. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2025 Designed for a Vanderbilt who never moved in, its monumental rooms were plucked from European manors and have somehow remained more or less unchanged for nearly a century. — Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025 Initial reports claimed that armed militias burned hundreds of wealthy landowners’ homes and manors. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025 Increasingly sophisticated contemporary hotels are opening, old manors are being converted into hotels, and eco-lodges are launching for the walker and nature seeker for whom the frequent rain is no obstacle. — Mary Lussiana, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2023

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The story says two Irish servants working at the Belle Haven mansions in the late 1800s fell in love.

— Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Some mansions include private tunnels under A1A so residents can reach their docks without crossing the road.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of mansions

Noun

Despite this, the car still has room for two, though its size does limit its use to private estates and racetracks.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026
Jupiter Island, farther north in Martin County where golfer Tiger Woods lives, has another concentration of large ocean-to-Intracoastal estates.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of estates

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of haciendas

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There are Resident Evil games set in Spanish castles, runaway trains, ocean liners, weird mansions, the bayou, and strange theme-park-like villages, with bespoke creatures in each.

— Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Now, a decade later, Biller has returned with a film that takes place entirely in medieval times, primarily shot in and around the old castles and churches of Prague.

— Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of castles

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Further along the coast, the Billiton Ekobeach Retreat offers beach villas made from dolken logs and nipa palm leaf roofs.

— Claire Turrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Cindy and Rande built a home next door to Clooney’s property in Los Cabos, Mexico, with the two residences designed as neighboring villas.

— Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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