mansion

Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. (Hong-Kong) An apartment building.
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) 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...1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192
6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. (Chinese) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (in plural) 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John XIV:2
   • These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets
9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.