McMansion
McMansion noun: a large, imposing and ostentatious house that lacks architectural integrity.
Noun
McMansion (plural McMansions)
- A large, imposing and ostentatious house that lacks architectural integrity.
- Twenty mansions were planned for the development, each designed to look like the biggest house in town. The McMansion we thought of as ours had an enormous kitchen, more than two stories high.1998 August 27, Benjamin Cheever, “Life in a Crater Will Do, For Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- After decades of ever-rising square footage in the McMansions that dot the suburbs, the idea of downsizing is gaining champions.1998 September 19, “Getting Smart About Art of Living Small”, in Los Angeles Times
- Synonyms:
- starter castle
McMansion meaning in Tamil
McMansion in Tamil
- பண்ணை வீடு
Examples of McMansion in a sentence
- They think because they've built a McMansion on twenty acres, they're elite—if you can stand that word.2006, Rita Mae Brown, The Hounds and the Fury, Center Point Pub., →ISBN, page 112:
- Such places exist, and they exist just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, through the rainbow tunnel, where McMansions meet divination on Highway 1, Marin County, California.2016, Melissa Broder, So Sad Today, Grand Central:
- After leaving him and others eerily like him off at their McMansions, I often worry about who else might be inside those houses.2020 February 27, Peter Jakubowicz, “The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night”, in Slate Magazine:
Synonyms of McMansion
Forms of McMansion
| plural | McMansions |
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Origin of McMansion
From Mc- + mansion. First use appears c. 1985.
Questions about McMansion
- What does McMansion mean?
- McMansion means a large, imposing and ostentatious house that lacks architectural integrity.
- What is McMansion in Tamil?
- McMansion in Tamil is பண்ணை வீடு. See McMansion meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use McMansion in a sentence?
- They think because they've built a McMansion on twenty acres, they're elite—if you can stand that word.
- What part of speech is McMansion?
- McMansion is a noun.
- What is the plural of McMansion?
- The plural of McMansion is McMansions.
Words near McMansion in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: McMansion (page history and authors); mcmansion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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