Mansion vs. Estate

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  • Mansion

    A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio “dwelling”, an abstract noun derived from the verb manere “to dwell”. The English word “manse” originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). ‘Manor’ comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would remain there—hence it is easy to see how the word ‘Mansion’ came to have its meaning.

Wikipedia
  • Mansion (noun)

    A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

  • Mansion (noun)

    A luxurious flat (apartment).

  • Mansion (noun)

    A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

  • Mansion (noun)

    A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

  • Mansion (noun)

    An astrological house; a station of the moon.

  • Mansion (noun)

    One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

  • Mansion (noun)

    An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

  • Mansion (noun)

    Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

  • Estate (noun)

    The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. from 19thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    State; condition. from 13thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    Status, rank. from 13thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    The condition of one’s fortunes; prosperity, possessions. from 14thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    A “person of estate”; a nobleman or noblewoman. 14th-17thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). from 14thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    The nature and extent of a person’s interest in, or ownership of, land. from 15thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. from 18thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.

  • Estate (noun)

    A housing estate. from 20thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). from 20thc.

  • Estate (noun)

    The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

  • Estate (adjective)

    Previously owned; secondhand.

    “an estate diamond; estate jewelry”

  • Estate (verb)

    To give an estate to.

  • Estate (verb)

    To bestow upon.

Wiktionary
  • Mansion (noun)

    a large, impressive house.

  • Mansion (noun)

    a large block of flats.

  • Mansion (noun)

    a terrace or mansion block

    “Carlyle Mansions”

  • Estate (noun)

    an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.

  • Estate (noun)

    an area of land and modern buildings developed for residential, industrial, or commercial purposes

    “Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London”

    “an industrial estate”

    “a housing estate”

  • Estate (noun)

    a property where coffee, rubber, grapes, or other crops are cultivated

    “large coffee estates”

    “L’Ormarin’s wine estate”

  • Estate (noun)

    all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death

    “in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter”

  • Estate (noun)

    a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates

    “the unions are no longer an estate of the realm”

  • Estate (noun)

    a particular class or category of people in society

    “the spiritual welfare of all estates of men”

  • Estate (noun)

    a particular state, period, or condition in life

    “the holy estate of matrimony”

    “programmes for the improvement of man’s estate”

  • Estate (noun)

    short for estate car

Oxford Dictionary

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