Palace vs Mansion - What's the difference?
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Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
A large and lavishly ornate residence.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
(archaic) To decorate or ornate.
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Benj. N. Martin, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=, edition=
, passage=May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."}}
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(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 palace and mansion
is that palace is official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system while mansion is (large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.As a verb palace
is to decorate or ornate.As a proper noun Palace
is Crystal Palace Football Club, a football team from London.palace
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(wikipedia palace)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Derived terms
* palace politics * palatial * puck palaceVerb
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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.