mansion.
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
Meaning & usage
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
A luxurious flat (apartment).
An apartment building.
A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
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.
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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