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noun

Mansion n.

A dwelling place, whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. (Obs.) "In my Father's house are many mansions." "These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep."

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.

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."

Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor.

verb

Mansion v. i. To dwell; to reside. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Mansion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mansion" Quotes from Famous Books

... sea-shore. I saw it but the other day, after an interval of twenty years, from a hill near Taunton. How was the map of my life spread out before me, as the map of the country lay at my feet! In the afternoon, Coleridge took me over to All-Foxden, a romantic old family mansion of the St. Aubins, where Wordsworth lived. It was then in the possession of a friend of the poet's, who gave him the free use of it. Somehow that period (the time just after the French Revolution) was ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... burning desire to aid in the cleansing of the city's slums and the social aspirations of his wife. The house stood on a corner, within grounds of its own, at the back of which were the stables and the carriage-house. A driveway and a spacious walk led to the front of the mansion; from the side street, a narrow path reached ...

— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley

... cottage in which he lived with his wife, Fannie, who was housekeeper to the Oakleys, and his son and daughter, Joe and Kit, sat back in the yard some hundred paces from the mansion of his employer. It was somewhat in the manner of the old cabin in the quarters, with which usage as well as tradition had made both master and servant familiar. But, unlike the cabin of the elder day, it was a neatly furnished, modern house, the home of a typical, good-living negro. ...

— The Sport of the Gods • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... river lies very solitary. On the opposite shore the trees of a private park enclose the view, the chimneys of the mansion just pricking forth above their clusters; on the near side the path is bordered by willows. Close among these lay the houseboat, a thing so soiled by the tears of the overhanging willows, so grown upon with parasites, so decayed, ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... that in the next world the souls of the uninitiated should roll in mire and dirt, and with difficulty reach their destined mansion. Hence, Plato introduces Socrates as observing that "the sages who introduced the Teletae had positively affirmed that whatever soul should arrive in the infernal mansions unhouselled and unannealed should ...

— Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy • John Delafield

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