mansion

• mansioun (obsolete)

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.ʃən/, /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/

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mansion (plural mansions)

1. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (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.

6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (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.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

• → Japanese: マンション (manshon)

• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism

Learned borrowing from Latin mansiō. Doublet of maison.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

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mansion f (plural mansions)

1. (astronomy) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “mansion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

mansion

1. Alternative form of mansioun