Seigneur
/sɛˈnjɝ/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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?""
- 2 a man of rank in the ancient regime wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie. Canada
- 5 A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
Antonyms
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More examples""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?""
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.