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mansion.

A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmæn.ʃən//ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/
  1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

  2. A luxurious flat (apartment).

    UK
  3. An apartment building.

    Hong-Kong
  4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

    obsolete
  5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

    obsolete
  6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.

    historical
  7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

    Chinese
  8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

    in-plural
  9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Where this word comes from

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”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.

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