mansion
Appearance
See also: mansión
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mansioun (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmæn.ʃən/, /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]mansion (plural mansions)
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
- (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
- (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:
- According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
- (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John XIV:2:
- In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
- 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets:
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.
- 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
- The many mansions in one east London house of God.
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: マンション (manshon)
Translations
[edit]large house or building
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin mansiō. Doublet of maison.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mansion f (plural mansions)
Further reading
[edit]- “mansion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mansion
- Alternative form of mansioun
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