mansion

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See also: mansión

English

A Victorian mansion in Eureka, CA.

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Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈmæn.ʃən/, /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

  2. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  3. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
  4. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
  5. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
  6. (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 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.
  7. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
  8. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
  9. (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.
  10. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

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Descendants

  • → Japanese: マンション (manshon)

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mansiō. Doublet of maison.

Pronunciation

Noun

mansion f (plural mansions)

  1. (astronomy) mansion

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

mansion

  1. Alternative form of mansioun
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