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Definition of Mansion house
1. Noun. A large and imposing house.
Generic synonyms: House
Specialized synonyms: Manor, Manor House, Castle, Palace, Stately Home
Terms within: Hall, Manor Hall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mansion House
Literary usage of Mansion house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by New York Microscopical Society, Chartered Insurance Institute, World Resources Institute, Institute of Transport (London, England) (1902)
"The terms " Mansion-house " and '• Mansion " are usually taken, ... With regard
to the meaning of Mansion-house, the old authority gives it as a ''large ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1911)
"The mansion house. The Bank of England. The Royal Exchange. ... behind the Mansion
House, with its graceful dome supported by Corinthian columns, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"The Gr*tt Exhibition—Conversazione at the mansion house—Lord Ross*'] Soirees—Admission
given to Northumberland House and to the Earl of ..."
4. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1859)
"If," said Lord Justice Turner, " a devisor, or settlor, occupies a mansion-house,
with trees planted or left standing for ornament around or about it, ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"24% A. Hawkins was indicted for burglary in the mansion-house of House of a S.
Story. It appeared that it was the house of the ..."
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