'Demesne' definitions:
Definition of 'demesne'
From: WordNet
noun
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne]
noun
Definition of 'Demesne'
From: GCIDE
- Demesne \De*mesne"\, n. [OE. demeine, demain, rule, demesne, OF. demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, proprietor, owner. See Dame, and cf. Demain, Domain, Danger, Dungeon.] (Law) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] --Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'demesne'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- ambit,
- arable land,
- area,
- arena,
- bailiwick,
- barnyard,
- barton,
- beat,
- border,
- borderland,
- cattle ranch,
- champaign,
- chattels real,
- chicken farm,
- circle,
- circuit,
- collective farm,
- cotton plantation,
- croft,
- dairy farm,
- demesne farm,
- department,
- discipline,
- domain,
- dominion,
- dry farm,
- dude ranch,
- factory farm,
- fallow,
- farm,
- farmery,
- farmhold,
- farmland,
- farmplace,
- farmstead,
- farmyard,
- field,
- fruit farm,
- fur farm,
- grain farm,
- grange,
- grassland,
- grounds,
- hacienda,
- hemisphere,
- homecroft,
- homefarm,
- homestead,
- honor,
- judicial circuit,
- jurisdiction,
- kibbutz,
- kolkhoz,
- land,
- landed property,
- lands,
- location,
- lot,
- lots,
- mains,
- manor,
- manor farm,
- march,
- messuage,
- orb,
- orbit,
- orchard,
- pale,
- parcel,
- pasture,
- pen,
- plantation,
- plat,
- plot,
- poultry farm,
- praedium,
- precinct,
- property,
- province,
- quadrat,
- ranch,
- rancheria,
- rancho,
- real estate,
- real property,
- realm,
- realty,
- round,
- sheep farm,
- sphere,
- station,
- steading,
- stock farm,
- subdiscipline,
- tenements,
- terrain,
- territory,
- toft,
- truck farm,
- walk