mansion
nouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈmæn.ʃən//
- //ˈmæn.t͡ʃən//
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
noun
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A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
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A luxurious flat (apartment).
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An apartment building.
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obsoleteA house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
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obsoleteA stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
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historicalAn astrological house; a station of the moon.
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One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
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An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.
The many mansions in one east London house of God.
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Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.
Forms
- plural
- mansions
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