0_Wizard
I live in a mansion, which is just another term for a very large house.
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
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Lanao del Sur local elections, 2016
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1_Apprentice
Oooh! That sounds nice!! Is it hard to maintain such a huge house?
0_Wizard
Yes, it is very hard. I guess if it was any bigger it would be a palace.
Mansions of considerable size and state significance are called palaces.
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Yes (band)
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1_Apprentice
I'd sure love to live in a palace, but I'd happily take a mansion! I know that you said it's bigger than a standard house, but how much bigger than a house is a mansion?
0_Wizard
Hm I'm not really sure of the exact size. There are even some that are very old and once began as a castle.
Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified castles in the Middle Ages.
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Nothing Records
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I Should Coco
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1_Apprentice
How interesting! What else can you tell me about living in a mansion? 
0_Wizard
Well the term came from manor which was given to a lord to stay there.
'Manor' comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would "remain" there—hence it is easy to see how the word 'Mansion' came to have its meaning.
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History of Penkridge
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Manor house
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Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
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Austrått
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Ernle
Ernle was the surname of an English gentry or landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex who derived their surname from the name of the place where their estates lay. Onomasticians say that the surname's origin, in being drawn from the name of a manor, is topographical in nature, and identical with the place name's origins. As such, it is derived from an Old English compound name composed of "earn" meaning "eagle" combined with "leah" meaning "wood". The name's meaning is interpreted as signifying a place to which eagles resort. The earliest forms noted are "Earneleach", "Earnaleagh", "Earnelegh" found in a document dated 780 during the reign of Oslac, duke of the South Saxons.
Lord of the manor
In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism. In modern England and Wales, it is recognised as a form of property, one of three elements of a manor that may exist separately or be combined, and may be held in moieties:  A title similar to such a lordship is known in French as , Welsh as "Breyr", in German, in Norwegian and Swedish, in Dutch and or in Italian. In Italy, especially in the kingdom of Sicily before 1812, the feudal title was often used; like its English equivalent, it came into wide use under the Normans as . Historically a lord of the manor might be a tenant-in-chief if he held a capital manor directly from the Crown; otherwise he was a mesne lord if he did not hold directly from the Crown, yet had his own tenants.
Jayhawker
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