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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪˈmeɪn/, /dɪˈmiːn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demesne.wav Forms: demesnes [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪn, -iːn Etymology: From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|demayne}} Middle English demayne, {{der|en|xno|demeyne}} Anglo-Norman demeyne, {{der|en|fro|demeine}} Old French demeine, {{cog|fr|domaine||domain}} French domaine (“domain”), {{der|en|la|dominicus||belonging to a lord or master}} Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), {{doublet|en|domain}} Doublet of domain Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Feudalism Translations (lord's chief manor place): имение (imenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), domini [masculine] (Catalan), 領地 (Chinese Mandarin), 领地 (lǐngdì) (Chinese Mandarin), grondbezit [neuter] (Dutch), domein [neuter] (Dutch), landgoed [neuter] (Dutch), maaomaisuus (Finnish), Grundbesitz [masculine] (German), Hausmacht (note: of a medieval king) [feminine] (German), birtok (Hungarian), seilbh [feminine] (Irish), dominio [masculine] (Italian), 領地 (ryōchi) (alt: りょうち) (Japanese), domena [feminine] (Polish), dominium [neuter] (Polish), доме́н (domén) (Russian), dominio [masculine] (Spanish), domän [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-demesne-en-noun-nv3DgY4v Disambiguation of Feudalism: 56 44 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Old French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 91 9 Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 57 5 19 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 67 10 11 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 75 8 8 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of "lord's chief manor place": 92 8
  2. A region or area; a domain.
    Sense id: en-demesne-en-noun-QbEHtaxg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: demesnial, Wallington Demesne

Adjective [Old French]

Forms: demesne [feminine, nominative, oblique, singular]
Head templates: {{head|fro|adjective|oblique and nominative feminine singular|demesne|||||||g=m|head=}} demesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular demesne), {{fro-adj|mf}} demesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular demesne)
  1. Alternative form of demaine Tags: alt-of, alternative, masculine Alternative form of: demaine
    Sense id: en-demesne-fro-adj-hZB-j6co

Noun [Old French]

Forms: demesne oblique singular or [canonical, masculine], demesnes [oblique, plural], demesnes [nominative, singular], demesne [nominative, plural]
Head templates: {{fro-noun|m}} demesne oblique singular, m (oblique plural demesnes, nominative singular demesnes, nominative plural demesne)
  1. Alternative form of demaine Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: demaine
    Sense id: en-demesne-fro-noun-hZB-j6co

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XVI, Chapter vii leaf 337r:",
          "text": "And whanne he sawe that he lete charce her oute of this land and bytoke hit me and alle this land in my demenys\nAnd when he saw that, he let chase her out of this land, and betook it me, and all this land in my demesnes.",
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          "text": "As no one had ever bothered them you could get within a few yards and watch their bright, busy foraging among the leaves. Duffy, the Consul, said that they were there every day as he had resisted the servants' implorings to shoot them; he knew that as soon as the first shot had been fired, this decorative adjunct to his demesne would vanish for ever.",
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I could spot no friendly native to tell me where I might find Bobbie. I proceeded, therefore, to roam hither and thither about the grounds and messuages in the hope of locating her, wishing that I had a couple of bloodhounds to aid me in my task, for the Travers demesne is a spacious one and there was a considerable amount of sunshine above, though none, I need scarcely mention, in my heart.",
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          "text": "Lines 993–995: […] One minute before his death, as we were crossing from his demesne to mine and had begun working up between the junipers and ornamental shrubs, a Red Admirable (see note to line 270) came dizzily whirling around us like a colored flame.",
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          "text": "This area to the west of the city had been a priory demesne in the sixteenth century, but in the frantic landgrab that followed the Restoration of the 1660s, […]",
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          "ref": "1816 December 1, John Keats, “[Sonnets.] Sonnet XI. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”, in Poems, London: […] [Charles Richards] for C[harles] & J[ames] Ollier, […], published 3 March 1817, →OCLC; reprinted in Poems (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, 1927, →OCLC, page 89:",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
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        "2": "domaine",
        "3": "",
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
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        "4": "",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XVI, Chapter vii leaf 337r:",
          "text": "And whanne he sawe that he lete charce her oute of this land and bytoke hit me and alle this land in my demenys\nAnd when he saw that, he let chase her out of this land, and betook it me, and all this land in my demesnes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:",
          "text": "As no one had ever bothered them you could get within a few yards and watch their bright, busy foraging among the leaves. Duffy, the Consul, said that they were there every day as he had resisted the servants' implorings to shoot them; he knew that as soon as the first shot had been fired, this decorative adjunct to his demesne would vanish for ever.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I could spot no friendly native to tell me where I might find Bobbie. I proceeded, therefore, to roam hither and thither about the grounds and messuages in the hope of locating her, wishing that I had a couple of bloodhounds to aid me in my task, for the Travers demesne is a spacious one and there was a considerable amount of sunshine above, though none, I need scarcely mention, in my heart.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Commentary”, in Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN, page 195:",
          "text": "Lines 993–995: […] One minute before his death, as we were crossing from his demesne to mine and had begun working up between the junipers and ornamental shrubs, a Red Admirable (see note to line 270) came dizzily whirling around us like a colored flame.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Christopher Morash, Dublin: A Writer's City, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 237:",
          "text": "This area to the west of the city had been a priory demesne in the sixteenth century, but in the frantic landgrab that followed the Restoration of the 1660s, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "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."
      ],
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          "lord"
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          "manor",
          "manor"
        ],
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          "tenancy",
          "tenancy"
        ],
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ],
        [
          "adjoining",
          "adjoining"
        ],
        [
          "proprietor",
          "proprietor"
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1816 December 1, John Keats, “[Sonnets.] Sonnet XI. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”, in Poems, London: […] [Charles Richards] for C[harles] & J[ames] Ollier, […], published 3 March 1817, →OCLC; reprinted in Poems (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, 1927, →OCLC, page 89:",
          "text": "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told / That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; […]",
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        }
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        "A region or area; a domain."
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    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈmeɪn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈmiːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːn"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "imenie",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "имение"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "domini"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "領地"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lǐngdì",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "领地"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "grondbezit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "domein"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "landgoed"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "maaomaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Grundbesitz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "of a medieval king",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hausmacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "birtok"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "seilbh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dominio"
    },
    {
      "alt": "りょうち",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ryōchi",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "領地"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "domena"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dominium"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "domén",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "word": "доме́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dominio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lord's chief manor place",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "domän"
    }
  ],
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    "demesne"
  ],
  "word": "demesne"
}

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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
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        "head": ""
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "demaine"
        }
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "demesnes",
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    }
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}

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