mansion

Significado

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmæn.ʃən/

Etimologia

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

Frases

During this period Governors of Victoria lived at Stonington mansion .

Durante esse período, os governadores de Victoria moravam na mansão Stonington.