mansion
See also: mansión
English
Alternative forms
- mansioun (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mansion (plural mansions)
- A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- (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.
- Late 14th century: 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
- (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, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
- Denham
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions 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.
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- Japanese: マンション (manshon) (borrowed)
Translations
large house or building
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Noun
mansion
- Alternative form of mansioun
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