ATTORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attorn mean? 

• ATTORN (verb)
  The verb ATTORN has 1 sense:

1. acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord

  Familiarity information: ATTORN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTORN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

he was attorned by the tenants

Hypernyms (to "attorn" is one way to...):

acknowledge; admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s