Thesaurus results for SHOWPLACE

showplace

noun

Definition of showplace

as in mansion

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Recent Examples of showplace Photos showing shining hardwood floors, a modern kitchen, multiple stylish bedrooms, a pool table, whirlpool bath and a crystal pendant chandelier presented what looked to be a showplace. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Dec. 2025 The fate of the space shuttle Discovery, now at a Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, went unmentioned in the hearing, with this summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act calling for $85 million to move the orbiter to a Houston showplace. — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2025 Subtlety trumped gilt, as the showplace for the president didn’t need to show off to prove American greatness. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025 The exhibition takes place at a new spot, Black Cube Headquarters, a massive, former warehouse that the organization has occupied mainly as an office space in Englewood, but now plans to use as a regular showplace. — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for showplace

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Noun

The hallucinatory cinematography and imposing Victorian mansion in which much of the story unfolds provide an abundance of atmosphere.

— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Now, Newsom is termed out of the governor’s mansion early next year and is reportedly laying the groundwork for a presidential run in 2028, where his track record on homelessness will almost inevitably come up on the campaign trail.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of mansion

Noun

The house combines several architectural styles — Romanesque arches on the tower, Renaissance window pediments, English-manor chimneys.

— Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
After hours, Neo-Vision parks his body in the bar’s walk-in fridge and retreats to a mind palace modeled after a British country manor.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of manor

Noun

So, rather than castles and stony ramparts, visitors encounter farms and sleepy villages.

— Rick Steves, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
That proved too costly for producers, so the decision was made to change the location to a castle, while keeping the idea of a mutiny and rival factions working against each other.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of castle

Noun

Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, Marilyn purchased the 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival-style hacienda for $75,000 in early 1962.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of hacienda

Noun

The property is also home to two villas, both of which overlook the on-site golf course, as well as 14 suites within the Spa Mansion.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
The day was hot and muggy, and late-nineteenth-century villas, however extravagant, don’t come with air-conditioning.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of villa

Noun

Cecil oversaw the opening of The Inn in 2001, making good, more than a century later, on his great-grandfather’s original vision for a hotel component to his country estate.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
The Daily Express, which first reported the investigation, said the inquiries related to claims that women were trafficked to the king’s private estate in the Scottish Highlands.

— Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of estate

Noun

Investigators determined that the crash happened about a mile from an active construction zone, where traffic was restricted to a single northbound lane with traffic cones.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2026
After 144 years of construction, architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, was inaugurated this summer after the final piece of the Tower of Jesus Christ was installed in February.

— Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of construction

Noun

Beech used two different locations to create the vast manor house.

— Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.

— Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of manor house

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