mansion
(Engels)
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- (Hong-Kong) An apartment building.
- (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) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (in-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.
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈmæn.ʃən/
Etimologie (Engels)
In summary
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”).
Related words
sign of the zodiac
mansion house
planetary house
private residence
large building
official residence
fine house
official mansion
large house
middle-class house
small castle
dwelling house
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