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Mansion vs Shack - What's the difference?

mansion | shack |

In obsolete terms the difference between mansion and shack

is that mansion is a stopping-place during a journey; a stage while shack is to feed in stubble, or upon waste.

As nouns the difference between mansion and shack

is that mansion is (large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy while shack is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

As a verb shack is

to live in or with; to shack up.

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

    *

    shack

    English

    (wikipedia shack)

    Etymology 1

    Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To live in or with; to shack up.

    • Etymology 2

    Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  • (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack .
  • * 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
    • [...] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  • * 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA]
    • The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack .
  • (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
    • (Forby)
  • * Henry Ward Beecher
    • All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
    Derived terms
    * common of shack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
    • (Grose)
  • * 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
    • first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  • (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

    • Anagrams

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