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 housenoun

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

2. mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residencenoun

   a large and imposing house

Wiktionary(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. mansionnoun

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

2. mansionnoun

   A luxurious flat (apartment).

3. mansionnoun

   A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

4. mansionnoun

   A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

5. mansionnoun

   An astrological house; a station of the moon.

6. mansionnoun

   One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

7. mansionnoun

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

8. mansionnoun

   Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

9. Etymology: from mansio, from the past participle stem of manere.

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1. Mansionnoun

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

2. Mansionnoun

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

3. Mansionnoun

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

4. Mansionnoun

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

5. Mansionverb

   to dwell; to reside

6. Etymology: [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.

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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.]

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1. amnions, Minoans, onanism

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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. William Butler Yeats:

   The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

2. Marlene Iglitzen:

   I bought it five days after it was listed, it was everything I wanted in a home: enormous windows in all directions, large scaled rooms and an outside deck outside the kitchen for gardening and grilling. I can see the trees turning each season. It’s a private home within a mansion.

3. House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford:

   When it comes to leadership, it simply has been lacking, i have worked with a Democratic governor at first and then a Republican governor, Mark Sanford. He would pick battles all the time but he would also invite Democrats to the governor's mansion to talk about issues. He would come to talk to our caucus meetings. She doesn't do any of that.

4. Douglas Smith:

   Up until the Klu Klux Klan thing, he had been doing pretty well, he oozes this appearance that everybody can fly in a gold jet and have a mansion. I think it’s his signature charisma.

5. Fernand Amandi:

   When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it? Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has refused to back down from his comments arguing during Tuesday nights debate in South Carolina that former President Barack Obama had once praised the Castro regimes progress on education and healthcare. The Vermont lawmaker said there is a reticence among Americans to look back at Washingtons own history of overthrowing foreign governments and supporting dictators. It might be a good idea to be honest of American foreign policy and that is the American government helped overthrow governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Iran, Sanders said in reference to U.S. support in overthrowing leaders in those countries in the 1970s and 80s. Sanders reference to Obama did not sit well with former Vice President Joe Biden, who claimed that his boss never embraced an authoritarian regime, while former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg lamented that the candidates were debating about Cold War-era policies. This is not about what coups happened in the 1970s and 80s, this is about the future, Buttigieg said. Sanders comments about the Castro regime could play a large role in how he fares in Floridas March 17 primary. Sanders socialist identification and his willingness to praise leftist regimes have given his Democratic opponents ammunition to question his electability in a state with a large Cuban American population that remains fiercely skeptical of leftist governments. In Florida, where Hispanics account for nearly one in every five voters, that skepticism could present a major hurdle for Sanders in the states primary, and for Democrats hoping to win Floridas 29 electoral votes in November. According to an Associated Press survey, about a third of Cuban American midterm voters identified as Democrats. However, Democrats hardly have a lock on that vote in battleground Florida, particularly among the nearly 2 million Floridians of Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan origin. In 2018, Republican Ron DeSantis narrowly won Floridas governors mansion. While more than two-fifths of Florida Latinos voters favored DeSantis overall, a clear majority of Cuban American voters 57 percent cast their support for the Republican. Critics say Sanders needs to more strongly disavow Cuba and other authoritarian regimes. Its not just about Cuban American voters, its Hispanic voters as well, many of whom would never consider voting for an avowed socialist ....

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