mansion house
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈmænʃən haʊs/
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mansión
- The following day, the steamer tied up about thirty-five miles northeast of today's Disney World, where the party climbed into carriages to visit the elegant mansion house of the Belair orange plantation.
Examples
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The wealthy family hosted a grand party at their mansion house, inviting all their closest friends.
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Back in the mansion house, they would distill, dissect, analyze, magnify, bottle, behold, contemplate, illustrate, annotate, and learn.
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Festivity forced work at the mansion house to stop.
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By the time he came to stay at the mansion house, he had committed the story of the amputation to memory.
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"It is to be the mansion house of the Count," Fidlit told her sister.
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Claude wanted to go directly to the mansion house, but his mother insisted he return, however briefly, to the cottage.
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Then he brought Charniers, Bergeron, and Masson, the three great players at the time, to the mansion house for private lessons.
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The line at the entrance to the mansion house was just long enough for Ashford, following along behind Anne, Merry, and Hollis, to read most of the pamphlet that came with the tickets.
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Before the Abbe could decide on a course of action, Kleinhoff shouted through the curtain that Sister Constance, the conscience of the valley, had arrived at the mansion house.
Fiction book (1992) -
He questioned Claude, as much as drunkenness would allow, about the goings-on at the mansion house, but the apprentice kept the Abbe's secrets secret.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.4
A very large, impressive house often with many rooms and gardens
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5.8
A large country house often the home of a rich family
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3.2
A large fancy house in the countryside or suburbs that people use as a holiday home
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3.5
A large official house where an important person, like a president, lives
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3.4
A large house in the countryside with its own land
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6.0
A large old country house once owned by a rich landowner
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2.5
A large, expensive home with nice decorations
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5.7
A large, impressive house in the country owned by a rich family
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9.1
A large grand house used as a private home
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Morphology
The meaning 'a large, stately house' is directly derivable from combining 'mansion' (a grand, stately residential building) and 'house' (a dwelling); the phrase is essentially compositional and even somewhat redundant. This noun‑noun combination follows common compounding patterns and is cross‑linguistically straightforward, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Mansion house comes from the old use of mansion to mean a large place to live and house meaning home. So the phrase paints the picture of a very grand home and today means 'a large, stately house'.