Mansion

Quick meaning: Mansion is a noun meaning A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

Meaning

A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

More Meanings

1. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
2. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
3. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. (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.)

Example Sentences

The many mansions in one east London house of God.

These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.

In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.

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.

Word Forms

• mansions
• mansioun

Synonyms for mansion

Depending on context, synonyms include manse, sign, residence, house, hall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include house, residence, hall, sign, manse, manoir.

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