demesne

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈmeɪn/, /dɪˈmiːn/

Noun

demesne (plural demesnes)

1. 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.
2. 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;

Translations

• German: Grundbesitz, (d. of a medieval king) Hausmacht
• Russian: доме́н
• Spanish: dominio

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