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Mansion vs Penthouse - What's the difference?

mansion | penthouse |

As nouns the difference between mansion and penthouse

is that mansion is (large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy while penthouse is an outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.

mansion

English

Alternative forms

* mansioun (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
  • * Denham
    • These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
  • * 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
    • The many mansions in one east London house of God.
  • Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

    • Derived terms

    * mansion house * mansion place * mansionette * mansionry

    Related terms

    * manor * manse

    Descendants

    * Japanese: (borrowed)

    Anagrams

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    penthouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.
  • * 1826 : William Eusebius Andrews, Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs , WE Andrews, pp. 386-7:
    • At length, recommending himself to God, he let go one end of his cord, and suffered himself to fall down upon an old shed or penthouse , which, with the weight of his body, fell in with great noise.
  • An apartment or suite found on an upper floor, or floors, of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious with panoramic views. Sometimes these are located just under "Penthouse Mechanical" floors.
  • * 1995 : Mary Ellen Waithe, Contemporary Women Philosophers: 1900-Today , Springer, p. 214:
    • Night of January 16th is the story of a woman on trial for pushing her wealthy boss-lover from a Manhattan penthouse .
  • Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.
  • * 2005, Tony Collins (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Traditional British Rural Sports , Routledge, page 262,
    • An odd derivative of real tennis lasted until the latter part of the eighteenth century at Rattray in Perthshire. It was played in the churchyard by two pairs of men, and the method for starting the play was to throw the ball onto the church roof, using it like the sloping penthouse of the tennis court.