mansion
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of mansion
9 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
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noun
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (UK)A luxurious flat (apartment).
- (Hong-Kong)An apartment building.
- (obsolete)A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
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(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.”
- (historical)An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- (Chinese)One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
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(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.”
- 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.
Words you can make from mansion
101 playable · top: AMNIONS (9 pts)
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30 words- AIMS 6 pts
- AMIN 6 pts
- AMIS 6 pts
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- MANI 6 pts
- MANO 6 pts
- MANS 6 pts
- MINA 6 pts
- MISO 6 pts
- MOAN 6 pts
- MOAS 6 pts
- MONS 6 pts
- NIMS 6 pts
- NOMA 6 pts
- NOMS 6 pts
- OMAS 6 pts
- SIMA 6 pts
- SOMA 6 pts
- AINS 4 pts
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- ANON 4 pts
- INNS 4 pts
- IONS 4 pts
- NANO 4 pts
- NANS 4 pts
- NAOI 4 pts
- NAOS 4 pts
- NONA 4 pts
- NONI 4 pts
- SAIN 4 pts
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