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manse

/mæns/

manse verb: to excommunicate; curse.

manse: to excommunicate; curse
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Verb

manse (third-person singular simple present manses, present participle mansing, simple past and past participle mansed)

  1. (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Noun

manse (plural manses)

  1. A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
    • He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
  2. (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
  3. A large house, a mansion.

manse meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

manse in Tamil

குருமனை

manse in Bengali

ধর্মযাজকের বাসভবন

manse in Malayalam

vicarage, minister's house, parsonage
പാതിരിയുടെ പാർപ്പിടം, വികാരിയുടെ വാസസ്ഥലം, പുരോഹിതവസതി, പുരോഹിതഗൃഹം, വെെദികമന്ദിരം, പുരോഹിത ഔദ്യോഗികവസതി

Forms of manse

Verb
third-person singular presentmanses
present participlemansing
past participlemansed
pastmansed
Noun
pluralmanses

Origin of manse

From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.

From Medieval Latin mānsus (“dwelling”), from Latin manēre (“to remain”), whence also manor, mansion. Doublet of mas.

Phrases with manse

Words that rhyme with manse

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Questions about manse

What does manse mean?
Manse means to excommunicate; curse.
What is manse in Tamil?
Manse in Tamil is குருமனை. See Manse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is manse?
Manse can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce manse?
Manse is pronounced /mæns/.
What is the past tense of manse?
The past tense of manse is mansed.

Words near manse in the dictionary

  1. manscapers
  2. manscapes
  3. manscaping
  4. manscara
  5. manscent
  6. manse
  7. Manseau
  8. Manseaus
  9. mansebdar
  10. mansebdars
  11. Mansel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: manse (page history and authors); manse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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