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mansion
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mansion \Man"sion\, n. [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 .] A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ A large grey stone mansion , surrounded by rhododendrons. ▪ He obviously wouldn't be resident, there was no house, only the large mansion some distance away. ▪ The earl of Derby has a large modern mansion ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mansion is a very large and imposing house. Mansion may also refer to: Twenty-Eight Mansions in the Chinese system of zodiacal constellations Mansions (band) , an indie-rock band Mansions (EP) , an EP by Mansions
Usage examples of mansion.
It is a curious and a mystical fact, that at the period to which I am alluding, and a very short time, only a little month, before he successfully solicited the hand of Miss Milbanke, being at Newstead, he fancied that he saw the ghost of the monk which is supposed to haunt the abbey, and to make its ominous appearance when misfortune or death impends over the master of the mansion.
Amer deplored, in pathetic strains, the apostasy and damnation of a son, who had renounced the promises of God, and the intercession of the prophet, to occupy, with the priests and deacons, the lowest mansions of hell.
Despite them, the autogiro dropped within the flame-scarred walls of the ruined mansion.
No witnesses had seen the autogiro prior to its take-off from the ruins of the mansion.
My father ordered one of the servants to stop a passing bearer and find out where the Barca mansion was, and what their colors were.
On the evening of the next day, he cruised past the Bartram mansion for want of a better plan.
He drove in the direction of the Bartram mansion, and cruised past the place.
The Shadow, unlike Harry Vincent, did not avoid a close approach to the Bartram mansion.
It hovered, later, amid the blackness that surrounded the gloomy mansion where Josiah Bartram had lain during his last illness.
CHAPTER XVII THE SHADOW ARRIVES ALL this time, Harry Vincent, seated at the wheel of his coupe, was watching the Bartram mansion.
AT that very moment, The Shadow was moving across the lawn to the Bartram mansion.
In the meantime, here within the Bartram mansion, Harry Vincent waited.
Buried beneath the Bartram mansion, in a hidden spot which only Mahinda could have known, there could be no chance for life.
As the coupe slid gently through the darkness, Willard Saybrook stared toward the Bartram mansion.
Doctor Felton Shores, driving past the Bartram mansion, kept on his way.