Mansion

Definitions

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. a neighbourhood of Sint Eustatius, Netherlands
3. A luxurious flat (apartment).
   UK
4. An apartment building.
   Hong-Kong
5. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
   obsolete
6. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
   obsolete
7. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   historical
8. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
   Chinese
9. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
   in-plural
10. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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

“The many mansions in one east London house of God.”

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