Definitions for mansion
ˈmæn ʃənman·sion

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house(noun)

   (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

2. mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence(noun)

   a large and imposing house

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. mansion(Noun)

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

2. mansion(Noun)

   A luxurious flat (apartment).

3. mansion(Noun)

   A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

4. mansion(Noun)

   A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

5. mansion(Noun)

   An astrological house; a station of the moon.

6. mansion(Noun)

   One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

7. mansion(Noun)

   An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

8. mansion(Noun)

   Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Origin: from mansio, from the past participle stem of manere.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Mansion(noun)

   a dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter

2. Mansion(noun)

   the house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension

3. Mansion(noun)

   a twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8

4. Mansion(noun)

   the place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution

5. Mansion(verb)

   to dwell; to reside

Origin: [OF. mansion, F. maison, fr. L. mansio a staying, remaining, a dwelling, habitation, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, dwell; akin to Gr. . Cf. Manse, Manor, Menagerie, Menial, Permanent.]

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1. Mansion

   A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word "manse" originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is no longer self-sustaining in this way. 'Manor' comes from the same root— territorial holdings granted toe Roman Empire. Within a Roman city, patrician dwellings might be very extensive, but they rarely identified their grandeur to the street, beyond the public amenity of a sheltered portico. Nero's Domus Aurea on the Palatine Hill, Rome was organized as a series of glittering pavilions in gardens rather than a mansion. Following the fall of Rome the practice of building unfortified villas ceased. Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified castles in the middle ages. As social conditions slowly changed and stabilised fortifications were able to be reduced, and over the centuries gave way to comfort. It became fashionable and possible for homes to be beautiful rather than grim and forbidding. Hence the modern mansion began to evolve.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Mansion

   man′shun, n. a house, esp. one of some size: a manor-house: the dwelling of a nobleman or a landholder: (B.) a resting-place.—ns. Man′sion-house, a mansion: the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London; Man′sionry (Shak.), a mansion, place of residence. [O. Fr.,—L. mansion-em—manēre, mansus, to remain.]

Anagrams for mansion »

1. amnions, Minoans, onanism

2. Amnions

3. Minoans

4. Onanism

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mansion in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mansion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of mansion in a Sentence

1. Israel Chavez:

   I don't have a mansion. I queue up like everyone else.

2. Jesse Louis Jackson:

   We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

   All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

4. Jerry Torre:

   The first obvious thing to do was clear the mansion of debris and garbage — there were days of it.

5. Nigel Adams:

   Clearly there's no cost of living crisis for 'Two Kitchens' Miliband, it's a bit rich lecturing people about poverty from his 2 million pound mansion.

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