Definition of "mansion"

mansion

/ˈmæn.ʃən/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […]; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, page 192
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.)
  Quotations
  In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John XIV:2
  These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.
  1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets
  The many mansions in one east London house of God.
  2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003
9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Definition of "mansion"

mansion

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