mansion

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.4.3 Descendants 1.4.4 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• mansioun (obsolete)

[edit] Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Latin mansiō (“‘dwelling, stopping-place’”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“‘stay’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmænʃən/

[edit] Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

1. A large house or building.
2. (British) A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
4. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
5. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   • Late C14: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
6. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
7. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement (after John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions").

[edit] Derived terms

• mansion house
• mansion place
• manshionette
• manshionry

[edit] Translations

• Chinese Chinese Characters: 舘; 苑

[edit] Descendants

• Japanese: マンション (manshon)

[edit] See also

• manor