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mansion

mansion

327 3.4
A very large, impressive house often with many rooms and gardens
  • noun
  • /ˈmænʃən/
translation icon : mansión
  • The August sun had been beaming down all day on the mansion in Augsburg.
  • live in a mansion
  • the governor's mansion
  • a grand mansion

And so on either side there's two huge mansions, nobody in them abandoned.

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Examples

  • After winning the lottery, she bought a luxurious mansion overlooking the ocean.

  • So, what's the story with that mansion across the street?

  • We go that night, The Edge has a birthday party at his mansion and we're invited to that.

  • I get to live in a mansion!

  • Wow, this is like a mansion compared to the place I slept last night.

  • We just sat here in this big old mansion villa on our own.

  • Our friend Dean, for example, has this unbelievable mansion in this unbelievable town.

  • It's so great that she's able to have her her own mansion and I got my own mansion.

  • He's got an old southern mansion.

  • The mansion was due to be torn down for a housing tract.

Synonyms

manor
vsmansion
67 5.8

A large country house often the home of a rich family

is the broad term for a grand and often luxurious dwelling in any setting
villa
vsmansion
55 3.2

A large fancy house in the countryside or suburbs that people use as a holiday home

is a grand stately residence often permanent and not only a holiday home
residence
vsmansion
  • Formal
54 3.5

A large official house where an important person, like a president, lives

is the ordinary grand private dwelling not necessarily official or public
country house
vsmansion
15 3.4

A large house in the countryside with its own land

is the general stately dwelling which may also appear in towns or suburbs
manor house
vsmansion
4 6.0

A large old country house once owned by a rich landowner

is a general stately and often luxurious dwelling not limited to historic ownership
fancy house
vsmansion
4 2.5

A large, expensive home with nice decorations

is a large impressive and often stately dwelling rather than just ornate
stately home
vsmansion
  • UK
2 5.7

A large, impressive house in the country owned by a rich family

is the broad term for any large stately and often luxurious dwelling
palais
vsmansion
1 9.1

A large grand house used as a private home

is the common large stately dwelling, not necessarily historically significant
mansion house
vsmansion
1 4.0

A very large, impressive house where a rich family lives

is the simpler common word for that same house

Antonyms

131 1.8

A small rough shelter made from wood and metal scraps

14 7.1

A small simple house that is dirty and not good to live in

Compounds

A very large, impressive house where a rich family lives

How Big

palace
241 1.0
mansion
327 3.4
villa
55 3.2
house
1.0
cottage
171 1.0

Surface Forms

mansion singular
mansions plural

Etymology

Mansion comes from the Latin mansio, from manere 'to stay'. A mansion was originally a place to 'stay', so the word came to mean a large, impressive house.