Domicile vs Mansion - What's the difference?
domicile | mansion |
(formal) A home or residence.
(legal) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
To have a domicile in a particular place.
(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
* Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
* Denham
* 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
As nouns the difference between domicile and mansion
is that domicile is (formal) a home or residence while mansion is estate.As a verb domicile
is to have a domicile in a particular place.domicile
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile ; too bad I was on vacation at the time.
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Verb
- The answer depends on in which state he was domiciled at his death.
mansion
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* mansioun (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
- The many mansions in one east London house of God.
