mansion

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈmæn.ʃən/
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/ˈmæn.ʃən/ · /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/

Definition of mansion

9 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

  1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  2. (UK)A luxurious flat (apartment).
  3. (Hong-Kong)An apartment building.
  4. (obsolete)A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
  5. (obsolete)A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
    “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)One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
  8. (in-plural)An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
    “In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.”
    “These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.”
    “The many mansions in one east London house of God.”
  9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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