mansion

mansion

See also: mansión

English

A Victorian mansion in Eureka, CA.

Alternative forms

• mansioun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænt͡ʃən/

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Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

1. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388, page 192:

     According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה‎ (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.

6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

7. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John XIV:2:

     In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.

   • 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

     These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.

   • 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:

     The many mansions in one east London house of God.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Derived terms

• mansionette
• mansional
• mansionry
• mansionless
• McMansion

Related terms

• maison
• maisonette
• manor
• manse
• mansionette
• mansion house
• mansion place
• mansionry
• mansion stage
• menage
• menial

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: マンション (manshon)

Translations

large house or building

Armenian: առանձնատուն (hy) (aṙanjnatun) Azerbaijani: imarət (az) Belarusian: асабня́к m (asabnják) Berber: Tashelhit: brgmmi m Bulgarian: резиденция (bg) f (rezidencija) Catalan: mansió (ca) f, casalici m Chinese: Mandarin: 豪宅 (zh) (háozhái), (literary) 宅第 (zh) (zháidì), (archaic; of a rich person or important official) 公館／公馆 (zh) (gōngguǎn) Dutch: landhuis (nl) n Esperanto: domego Finnish: kartano (fi), linna (fi) French: manoir (fr) m, demeure (fr) f Galician: mansión f, pazo (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Herrenhaus (de) n, Villa (de) f, Anwesen (de) n Greek: αρχοντικό (el) n (archontikó) Ancient Greek: στέγος n (stégos) Hebrew: אַרְמוֹן‎ (he) m (ʾarmón), טִירָה‎ (he) f (tirá), מָעוֹן‎ (he) m (ma'ón) Hindi: हवेली (hi) f (havelī), महल (hi) m (mahal) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: wastu (id) Irish: teach mór m Italian: reggia (it) f, dimora (it) f, palazzo (it) m, villa (it) f Japanese: 大邸宅 (だいていたく, daiteitaku), 豪邸 (ja) (ごうてい, gōtei) Korean: 대저택 (ko) (daejeotaek) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: па́лата f (pálata) Malay: rumah agam Malayalam: മാളിക (ml) (māḷika) Ngazidja Comorian: djumɓa class 5/6 Persian: کوشک‎ (fa) (kušk) Polish: rezydencja (pl) f Portuguese: solar (pt) m, mansão (pt) f, palacete (pt) m, paço (pt) m Romanian: palat (ro) n, conac (ro) n, curte (ro) f Russian: особня́к (ru) m (osobnják), (colloquial) хоро́мы (ru) pl (xorómy), (colloquial) дворе́ц (ru) m (dvoréc), поме́стье (ru) n (poméstʹje) (manor) Scottish Gaelic: taigh-mòr m Serbo-Croatian: Roman: ljetnikovac (sh) m Spanish: mansión (es) f, casoplón (es) (colloquial), palacete (es) m Swahili: jumba (sw) Tagalog: himbabahay Thai: คฤหาสน์ (th) (ká-rʉ́-hàat) Turkish: konak (tr), saray (tr), malikâne (tr), mansiyon (tr) Ukrainian: особня́к m (osobnják) Urdu: حویلی‎ (ur) f (havelī) Vietnamese: dinh thự Volapük: kased (vo) Welsh: plasty (cy)

Anagrams

• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism

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French

Noun

mansion f (plural mansions)

1. (astronomy) mansion

Further reading

• “mansion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

mansion

1. Alternative form of mansioun