mansion

Meaning

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. An apartment building.
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Concepts

mansion

house

palace

residence

dwelling

castle

abode

edifice

habitation

manse

home

villa

hall

mansion house

planetary house

sign

sign of the zodiac

star sign

large building

private residence

manor

building

construction

large house

small castle

feudal lord

fine house

seat

dwelling house

place

dome

manor house

court

official mansion

official residence

middle-class house

chamber

door

room

country house

estate

farmyard

seigniory

detached house

zodiac sign

hut

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæn.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).

Sentences

During this period Governors of Victoria lived at Stonington mansion .