Mansion
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- 2 a large and imposing house wordnet
- 3 A luxurious flat (apartment). UK
- 4 (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided wordnet
- 5 An apartment building. Hong-Kong
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- 6 A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. obsolete
- 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."
- 8 An astrological house; a station of the moon. historical
- 9 One of twenty-eight sections of the sky. Chinese
- 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."
- 11 Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Example
More examples"The cat burglar must have entered the mansion from the roof."
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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