seigneur

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɛˈnjɜ/    美 /sɛˈnjɝ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A feudal lord or noble.
    — "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. 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.
  3. A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie. Canada
  4. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

词形变化

seigneurs plural seignior alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
seigneuress seigneurial seigneury
相关词
droit de seigneur grand seigneur
并列词
seigneuresse dame

词源

Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
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