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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Demesne \De*mesne"\, noun [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.
{Ancient demesne}. (Eng. Law) See under {Ancient}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
demesne
noun
1: 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}]
2: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [syn: {domain}, {land}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "demesne": 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
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