mansion
Meaning
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- A luxurious flat (apartment).
- An apartment building.
- (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
- (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- 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.
Synonyms
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
Frequency
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”).
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