English Explanatory Dictionary

mansion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
  3. An apartment building.
  4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
  5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
  6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
  7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
  8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
  9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Pronunciation

/ˈmæn.ʃən/ /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mansion.wav

Word forms

mansion mansions mansioun

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.

Related words

maison maisonette manor manse mansion house mansion place mansion stage menage menial

Derived words

cinemansion executive mansion lunar mansion mansional mansioned mansionette mansionization mansionless mansionlike mansionry McMansion megamansion minimansion tract mansion
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