demesne
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈmeɪn/, /dɪˈmiːn/
demesne (plural demesnes)
- A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.
- A region or area; a domain.
- 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 5-6
- Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
- Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
- 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 5-6
- German: Grundbesitz, (d. of a medieval king) Hausmacht
- Russian: доме́н
- Spanish: dominio
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