Crossword clues for mansion
mansion
- Lord's house
- Millionaire's home, say
- One of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- A large and imposing house
- O'Hara's Tara, for one
- Stately residence
- Estate house
- Many sit endlessly on pile
- Opera is back in the big house
- One on board is back working in large house
- Large imposing house
- Large house
- Pile I fed to males
- Pavarotti's OK in an opera house
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mansion \Man"sion\, v. i.
To dwell; to reside. [Obs.]
--Mede.
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.]
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A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.]
In my Father's house are many mansions.
--John xiv. -
These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep.
--Den?am.2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
--Chaucer.-
The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]
The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon.
--Chaucer.Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor.
--Blackstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "chief residence of a lord," from Old French mansion "stay, permanent abode, house, habitation, home; mansion; state, situation" (13c.), from Latin mansionem (nominative mansio) "a staying, a remaining, night quarters, station," noun of action from past participle stem of manere "to stay, abide," from PIE *men- "to remain, wait for" (cognates: Greek menein "to remain," Persian mandan "to remain"). Sense of "any large and stately house" is from 1510s. The word also was used in Middle English as "a stop or stage of a journey," hence probably astrological sense "temporary home" (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy. 2 (context UK English) A luxurious flat (apartment). 3 (context obsolete English) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. 4 (context obsolete English) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage. 5 (context historical English) An astrological house; a station of the moon. 6 (context Chinese astronomy English) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky. 7 (context chiefly in the plural English) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.) 8 Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
WordNet
n. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house, planetary house]
a large and imposing house [syn: mansion house, manse, hall, residence]
Wikipedia
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
The word itself derives through Old French 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 (compare a Roman or medieval villa). ' Manor' comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would remain there—hence it is easy to see how the word 'Mansion' came to have its meaning.
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
Mansion is the first studio album from the Christian hip hop artist NF. Capitol CMG released the project on March 31, 2015.
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.