Mansion
（重定向自Mantion）
![Gelbensande Manor, an 1885 Gründerzeit style mansion built for hunting, near Rostock, Germany.](/Images/godic/202501/25/Gelbensande35423.jpg")
![Renaissance villas such as Villa Rotonda near Vicenza were an inspiration for many later mansions, especially during the industrialisation.](/Images/godic/202501/25/Larotonda20095424.JPG")
![Harlaxton Manor, England, a 19th-century meeting of Renaissance, Tudor and Gothic architecture produced Jacobethan - a popular form of historicist mansion architecture.](/Images/godic/202501/25/Harlaxton_manor5424.jpg")
![Built in Renaissance Revival style, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the best known 19th-century mansions in the United States.](/Images/godic/202501/25/The_Breakers_Newport5424.jpg")
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word "manse" originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). '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.