mansion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

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

3. 3
   noun

   a large and imposing house

4. 4
   noun

   (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

5. 5
   noun

   A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

6. 6
   noun

   A luxurious flat (apartment).

7. 7
   noun

   An apartment building.

8. 8
   noun

   A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.