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mansion

Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ʃən/

The English word “mansion” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
  3. An apartment building.
  4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
  5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
  6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
  7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
  8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
  9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.

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