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signeur

signeur is the obsolete spelling of seigneur.

Meaning of seigneur

Noun

seigneur (plural seigneurs)

  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?"1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 269
  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.2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker
  3. (Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
  4. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

Forms of signeur

pluralsigneurs

Questions about signeur

What is signeur the obsolete spelling of?
Signeur is the obsolete spelling of seigneur.

Words near signeur in the dictionary

  1. signet rings
  2. signeted
  3. signeth
  4. signets
  5. signetted
  6. signeur
  7. signeurial
  8. signeurialism
  9. signeurs
  10. signholder
  11. signholders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: signeur (page history and authors); seigneur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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