mansion

plural mansions · alternative obsolete mansioun

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. UKA luxurious flat (apartment).
3. Hong KongAn apartment building.
4. obsoleteA house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. obsoleteA stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

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   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.

   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. historicalAn astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. ChineseastronomyOne of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. in pluralAn individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

   The many mansions in one east London house of God.

   2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003

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   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.