Difference between Manor and Mansion

What is the difference between Manor and Mansion?

Manor as a noun is a landed estate. while Mansion as a noun is a large house or building.

Manor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A landed estate. The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district. In English slang, any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.

Mansion

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large house or building.A luxurious flat (apartment).A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.An astrological house; a station of the moon.One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement (after John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions").

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