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Mansion

//ˈmæn.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  2. 2
    a large and imposing house wordnet
  3. 3
    A luxurious flat (apartment). UK
  4. 4
    (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided wordnet
  5. 5
    An apartment building. Hong-Kong
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  1. 6
    A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. obsolete
  2. 7
    A stopping-place during a journey; a stage. obsolete

    "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."

  3. 8
    An astrological house; a station of the moon. historical
  4. 9
    One of twenty-eight sections of the sky. Chinese
  5. 10
    An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.) in-plural

    "In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you."

  6. 11
    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”).

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