mansion

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A Victorian mansion in Eureka, CA.

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[edit] Etymology

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

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  • IPA: /ˈmænʃən/

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Singular
mansion

Plural
mansions

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").

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A large house or building
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  • Chinese Chinese Characters: 舘; 苑

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