mansion

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).

noun

  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.
  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.)
    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.

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