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MANSION
mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence
(noun) a large and imposing house
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mansion (plural mansions)
A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
(chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Anagrams
• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism
Source: Wiktionary
Man"sion, n. Etym: [OF. mansion, F. maison, fr. L. mansio a staying, remaining, a dwelling, habitation, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, dwell; akin to Gr. Manse, Manor, Menagerie, Menial, Permanent.]
1. A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.] In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den
2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
3. (Astrol.)
Definition: A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer.
4. The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.
Man"sion, v. i.
Definition: To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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