demesne

1. 1.

   extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

   “the family owned a large estate on Long Island”

   Synonymsestatelandlanded estateacres

   Broaderreal property

   NarrowerfreeholdglebeleaseholdsmallholdinghomesteadfiefbaronycountryseatCrown landmanor
2. 2.

   territory over which rule or control is exercised

   “his domain extended into Europe”

   “he made it the law of the land”

   Synonymsdomainland

   Broaderregion

   Narrowerarchduchybaronyduchyearldomemirateempirefiefdomgrand duchyviscountykhanate

   Part ofcountry

Other forms of demesne

plural

demesnes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about demesne

What does demesne mean?

demesne means "extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in demesne?

demesne has 2 syllables: de-mesne. The stress falls on "mesne". In IPA it is /dəˈmeɪn/.

What is another word for demesne?

Close synonyms include estate, land, landed estate, acres, domain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is demesne a common word?

demesne is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with demesne?

11 words rhyme with demesne. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.