# mansion

Pronunciation: US say "MAN-shuhn" /ˈmæn.ʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. A large, lavish house or other building, usually one built for wealthy people.
   - Simple: A very big and fancy house, usually for rich people.
   - _The tech founder's hillside mansion has its own movie theater and a garage for twelve cars._
   - _Many of the old mansions along the avenue have been turned into museums and offices._
2. A separate dwelling or set of rooms inside a large house or group of buildings, now mostly heard in echoes of the biblical verse John 14:2.
   - Simple: One of the separate homes or rooms inside a big house, known today mostly from the Bible.
   - _The church has many mansions, and it makes room for believers who agree on very little else._
   - _Read aloud at countless funerals, the verse about the many mansions in the Father's house pictures a home with a room set aside for each believer._

## Noun

3. A dwelling set aside for a clergyman to live in. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A house given to a priest or minister to live in.
4. A place where travelers halt along the way on a journey; one stage of the route. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A place where you stop during a trip.

## Other meanings

- (noun) In astrology, one of the stations the moon passes through on its monthly circuit, or, in older use, one of the houses of the heavens.
- (noun) In Chinese astronomy, any one of the twenty-eight divisions into which the sky is split.
- (noun) In British English, a grand block of flats, usually Victorian or Edwardian, now found mostly in names such as Albert Hall Mansions and in mansion flat.
- (noun) In Hong Kong, an apartment building; the word is used only as part of a building's name.
- (noun) One of the distinct branches that together make up the Rastafari movement.

## Origin

Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), formed on the past participle stem of manēre (“to stay”), gave Anglo-Norman mansion or mansiun. Middle English took the word over as mansioun.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mansion (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).