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mansion

mansion

327 3.4
A very large, impressive house often with many rooms and gardens
  • noun
  • /ˈmænʃən/
: 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.