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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

... found an old turret, with steps so broken that M. Lacordaire did not care to ascend them, and the ruined walls of a mansion, in which nothing was to be seen but the remains of an ...

— The Chateau of Prince Polignac • Anthony Trollope

... of "Electa Cyria." In later years this lady became disgusted with her husband's religion, and refused after his death to leave Illinois for Utah. She remained in Nauvoo, and married a Gentile named Bidamon. For a long time she kept the Mansion House in that place, where she ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

... her present situation, than her most sanguine hopes could have formed. She had a companion whom she loved with an equal fondness, with which she had loved her deceased mother; and frequently, in this charming mansion, where she had so often beheld Lady Elmwood, her imagination represented Matilda as her friend risen from the grave, in her former ...

— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald

... he could see the mansion of Broadstone, Claude Locker spoke no word. When the time had come to go he had not wanted to go. When taking leave of Dick Lancaster he had congratulated that favored young man upon the fact that he had not been rejected, and had assured him that if he had remained at Broadstone he would ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... which was 'Picciola' by Saintine. Instantly I began to write. Breathlessly I wrote for hours. I exceeded our limit ten times over. The poor Italian Count, the victim of political offences, shut by Napoleon from the wonderful grounds, mansion, and life that were his, restricted to the bare prison walls of Fenestrella, deprived of books and writing material, his one interest in life became a sprout of green, sprung, no doubt, from a seed dropped by a passing bird, between the stone ...

— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter

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