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seigneur

noun
/sɛˈnjɜ/UK/sɛˈnjɝ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.

  1. derived from seignor
  2. borrowed from seigneur

Definitions

  1. A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.

    • "Then you're not - " "Darling," I said, "do you really see me in the position of a seigneur, driving my serfs and villeins before me with a whip - even if the triffids haven't overrun me first?"
    • There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.

  2. The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.

    • Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.

  3. A landowner in Canada

    A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

The neighborhood

Derived

seigneuress, seigneurial, seigneury

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA