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