McMansion

British  

/ məkˈmænʃən /

noun

1. informal a large modern house considered to look mass-produced, lacking in distinguishing characteristics, and at variance with established local architecture

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Etymology

Origin of McMansion

C20: a corruption of McDonald's , a major American fast-food enterprise noted for the ubiquity of its restaurants

Example Sentences

After all, the entry point to this parallel universe is a tony study inside a well-appointed McMansion.

From Salon

McCann is, by no exaggeration, the best reality television find since Tiffany “New York” Pollard strolled into the McMansion they rented for “Flavor of Love” Season 1.

From Salon

The clean, gleaming surfaces leave an impression of what Elsinore castle might be like as a coastal McMansion on one of the “Real Housewives” series.

From Los Angeles Times

The metastatic growth of the upper-middle-class house has led to a familiar term of art: the McMansion.

From Slate

I’m a frequent reader of McMansion Hell, the critic Kate Wagner’s caustic architecture blog, and while GWHs are McMansion-sized, they don’t sport a lot of the fripperies—the cornices, the colonnades—that the ’90s monstrosities on Wagner’s site do.

From Slate