Seigneur (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural sei·gneurs [seen-yurz, seyn-; French se-nyœr]. /sinˈyɜrz, seɪn-; French sɛˈnyœr/. (sometimes initial capital letter)
  1. a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  2. (in French Canada) a holder of a seigneury.
noun
  1. a feudal lord, esp in France
  2. (in French Canada, until 1854) the landlord of an estate that was subdivided among peasants who held their plots by a form of feudal tenure
Seigneur (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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