seigneur

• seignior

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɛˈnjɜ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɛˈnjɝ/

seigneur (plural seigneurs)

1. (history) A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 156:

     There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.

2. The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
   • 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:

     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. (Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
4. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

• seigneuresse (wife of a seigneur)
• seigneuresse (a female seigneur)
• dame (female feudal ruler of Sark)

• seigneurial
• seigneury

• droit de seigneur
• grand seigneur

Inherited from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor (oblique form), from Latin seniōrem (compare sire, derived from the nominative form). Doublet of senior.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.ɲœʁ/ ~ /se.ɲœʁ/

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seigneur m (plural seigneurs, feminine seigneuresse or seigneuse)

1. lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
2. lord (master)
3. (Canada) seigneur (a landowner, holder of a seigneurie)

• à tout seigneur tout honneur
• vivre en grand seigneur

• seigneuresse
• seigneurial
• seigneurie
• sire
• monseigneur

• “seigneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• seringue

From Old French seignor.

seigneur m (plural seigneurs)

1. lord
2. sire (term of respect)

• → English: seigneur
• French: seigneur

seigneur oblique singular, m (oblique plural seigneurs, nominative singular sire, nominative plural seigneur)

1. Alternative form of seignor