seigneury

Other forms of seigneury

plural

seigneuries·

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 seigneury

What does seigneury mean?

seigneury means "the estate of a seigneur". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seigneury?

seigneury has 4 syllables: se-ig-neu-ry. The stress falls on "ig".

What is another word for seigneury?

Close synonyms include seigniory, signory, seigniory, feudal lordship. 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 seigneury a common word?

seigneury is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.