Household vs Mansion - What's the difference?
household | mansion |
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 5:
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
* 1592 , , IV. vi. 39:
Belonging to the same house and family.
Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.
(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 household and mansion
is that household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc; a domestic or family establishment while mansion is estate.As an adjective household
is belonging to the same house and family.household
English
(wikipedia household)Noun
(en noun)- Although I was a member of the royal household , I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.
- And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
- In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* Household Cavalry * household deity * household god * household namemansion
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Alternative forms
* 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.
