mansion
IPA: mˈænʃʌn
noun
- A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
- (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
- (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
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Examples of "mansion" in Sentences
- This was the site of the mansion.
- Does he live in a hovel or a mansion
- The village means the mansion of the Baghal.
- The Merrill House is the oldest mansion in the district.
- The mansion is the official residence of the mayor of Newport.
- It included the Governor's mansion and the homes of the wealthy.
- Some of the most spectacular mansions reside in the area of the city.
- The sale of land close to the mansion for forestry work doomed the house.
- The remainder of the home was demolished to construct the current mansion.
- The sale of the land close to the mansion for forestry work doomed the house.
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