Mansion

Definition of Mansion

Man´sion
n.1.A dwelling place, - whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
In my Father's house are many mansions.
- John xiv. 2.
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.
3.(Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
4.The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
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.
v. i.1.To dwell; to reside.

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