demesne
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Land attached to a manor and retained for the owner's own use; a domain.
The old hall and its wooded demesne had belonged to the family for four centuries.
Law noun
Land occupied and worked by its owner rather than let out to tenants; the lord's own holding within a manor.
The home farm formed part of the demesne that the lord retained in his own hands.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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