mansard

1. 1.

   a hip roof having two slopes on each side

   Synonymsmansard roof

   Broadercurb roof

   NarrowerFrench roof

1. 1.

   (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper

   “the story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret”

   Similarhipped

Other forms of mansard

plural

mansards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mansard

What does mansard mean?

mansard means "a hip roof having two slopes on each side". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mansard?

mansard has 2 syllables: man-sard. The stress falls on "man".

What is another word for mansard?

Close synonyms include mansard roof. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mansard a common word?

mansard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.