(n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
(n.) In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(3) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(5) It also has one of the highest female university rates anywhere in the world.” The UAE-based Rotana hotels is planning to open a number of hotels in Iran, and France’s leading hotelier, Accor, is involved in at least two four-star hotels in the country.
(6) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(7) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(8) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(9) After a quick look around, he too left for his hotel.
(10) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(11) We stayed at the Secret Garden Tulum Hotel (doubles from £63) which offers a green oasis at reasonable prices.
(12) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(13) Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, said after he was briefed on the investigation that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from the one where Obama is staying.
(14) Because of her son's disability she has been told the council will try to find her something cheaper within the borough, but for the moment nothing suitable has been found and the hotel room has been booked until next week, costing Hammersmith and Fulham council about £69 a night for each of the two rooms.
(15) He arrived in San Sebastián and returned to the Maria Cristina hotel, which has been his home for the last year, but he did not make any comment.
(16) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
(17) The victories, at the Sony Radio Academy Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, will be a boost for protestors hoping to persuade the BBC that the stations should be saved.
(18) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
(19) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(20) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
Mansion
Definition:
(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(3) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(4) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(5) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(6) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
(7) Here I am sitting in Hampstead, looking at a mansion tax coming towards me and I might not like it, but that’s the deal,” he said.
(8) The party has set out plans to make work pay by introducing a new 10p tax rate to be funded by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m.
(9) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(10) He hailed the party's commitment to lift low and average earners out of tax, and rounded on those who criticised the Lib Dems' proposed "mansion tax" – a tax on properties worth over £2m – as an attack on "ordinary middle-class owners", saying: "You wonder what part of the solar system they live in."
(11) As the Lib Dems came under their most sustained scrutiny in years, their proposal for a 1% a year "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m was questioned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned that the policy might backfire and raise £330m less than the £1.7bn annually that the party claims it will raise.
(12) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(13) How Balls achieves his £1.2bn from a mansion tax is a mystery.
(14) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
(15) A bomb scare on Wednesday prompted a large security operation to be launched on Thursday to protect the former president as he travelled from his mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad.
(16) In his last speech as governor of the Bank of England, King told the Mansion House audience: "I welcome your announcement that Lloyds Banking Group will be returned to private hands soon.
(17) The mansion tax uses Balls’s £3,000 limit up to £3m and charges 0.25% of value thereafter.
(18) A wealthy Russian recently summoned the capital's best commercial lawyers to a Mayfair mansion to bid "for what could potentially be the biggest case of their careers".
(19) They would rather talk about a clodhopping, low-revenue mansion tax that is unlikely to happen than a fair, easy and lucrative extension of council tax, over which they would have less control.
(20) He only had eyes for the Post mansion and Palm Beach.