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How to pronounce manse in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hall, mansion, mansion house, residence
Type of house
Has types castle, manor house, palace, stately home, manor
Type Words
Type of residence

Examples of manse

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The Rev Aitkens manse was partly destroyed, his money stolen and his wine drunk.
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Sturdy and handsome, the wood chairs look to be lifted from a colonial-era manse.
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Burn down the manse with an unattended iron, and the typical policy covers you.
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Construction has begun on Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's mega manse in Brentwood.
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These days, pity the ex-spouse who gets the depreciating manse as part of the deal.
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Cavell was a daughter of the rectory, just as Mr Brown is a son of the manse.
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He lived in the manse beside the 1st Coleraine Presbyterian Church on Abbey Street.
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The home, located in Centre Presbyterian Church's manse, provides free patient care.
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Mr Brown's son-of-the-manse Scottishness is an essential part of who he is.
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  • Mansion: a large and imposing house
  • The residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman)
  • A manse (from Latin mansus, "dwelling", from manere, "to remain") is a house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of a Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or United Church. ...
  • The Manse is a historic house at 54 Prospect Street in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
  • A house inhabited by the minister of a parish; A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house; A large house, a mansion
  • Parsonage; enough land to support a family.
  • The house of the parish minister is called the manse.
  • (chiefly Scots): House of a minister of religion.