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# mansion

«mansion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large, grand house, usually belonging to a rich…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mansion, mansions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very large, grand house, usually belonging to a rich person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#m1)

2) (UK, in names) Mansions: a block of flats, such as «Victoria Mansions». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories mansions belong to rich families, villains or ghosts; they have many rooms, big gardens and gates. In everyday life people joke «it's not a mansion» about a small house. Phrases: a huge mansion, a haunted mansion, a country mansion.

### examples

- The film star lives in a huge mansion with a pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x1)
- The old mansion on the hill was said to be haunted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x2)
- The mansion had twenty bedrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x3)
- We visited a mansion with beautiful gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x4)
- Our flat is small; it's not exactly a mansion! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x5)
- The family lost their money and had to sell the mansion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x6)
- Gold gates led up to the mansion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x7)
- Victoria Mansions is a block of flats near the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x8)
- High up, on the woody hillside, stood the new mansion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/#x9)

### note

Countable: mansions. Do not confuse with «mention» (to speak about), which sounds a little similar. Similar: manor, stately home (UK), villa, palace (even bigger, for royalty).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mansion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mansion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.