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man·sion    Audio Help   [man-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a very large, impressive, or stately residence.
2.manor house.
3.Often, mansions. British. a large building with many apartments; apartment house.
4.Oriental and Medieval Astronomy. each of 28 divisions of the ecliptic occupied by the moon on successive days.
5.Archaic. an abode or dwelling place.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME < L mānsiōn- (s. of mānsiō) an abiding, abode. See manse, -ion]
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house    Audio Help   (hous)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. hous·es (hou'zĭz, -sĭz)
    1. A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.
    2. A household or family.
    3. A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public: a movie house; the specialty of the house.
    4. The audience or patrons of such an establishment: a full house.
    5. A commercial firm: a brokerage house.
    6. A publishing company: a house that specializes in cookbooks.
    7. A gambling casino.
    8. Slang A house of prostitution.
    9. often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
    10. The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
    11. A quorum of such an assembly.
    12. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
    13. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
  1. Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.
  2. A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit: a sorority house.
  3. A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something: a carriage house; the lion house at the zoo.
    1. A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public: a movie house; the specialty of the house.
    2. The audience or patrons of such an establishment: a full house.
    3. A commercial firm: a brokerage house.
    4. A publishing company: a house that specializes in cookbooks.
    5. A gambling casino.
    6. Slang A house of prostitution.
    7. often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
    8. The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
    9. A quorum of such an assembly.
    10. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
    11. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
    1. A commercial firm: a brokerage house.
    2. A publishing company: a house that specializes in cookbooks.
    3. A gambling casino.
    4. Slang A house of prostitution.
    5. often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
    6. The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
    7. A quorum of such an assembly.
    8. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
    9. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
  4. A residential college within a university.
    1. often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
    2. The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
    3. A quorum of such an assembly.
    4. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
    5. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
  5. often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family: the House of Orange.
    1. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
    2. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
  6. House music.

v.   (houz) housed, hous·ing, hous·es

v.   tr.
  1. To provide living quarters for; lodge: The cottage housed ten students.
  2. To shelter, keep, or store in or as if in a house: a library housing rare books.
  3. To contain; harbor.
  4. To fit into a socket or mortise.
  5. Nautical To secure or stow safely.

v.   intr.
  1. To reside; dwell.
  2. To take shelter.


[Middle English hous, from Old English hūs.]

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man·sion    Audio Help   (mān'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A large stately house.
  2. A manor house.
  3. Archaic
    1. A dwelling; an abode.
    2. mansions A separate dwelling in a large house or structure.
    3. See house.
    4. Any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path.
    1. See house.
    2. Any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path.


[Middle English, a dwelling, from Old French, from Latin mānsiō, mānsiōn-, from mānsus, past participle of manēre, to dwell, remain; see men-3 in Indo-European roots.]

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mansion 
c.1340, "the chief residence of a lord," from O.Fr. mansion, from L. mansionem (nom. mansio) "a staying, a remaining, night quarters, station," from manere "to stay, abide," from PIE *men- "to remain, wait for" (cf. Gk. menein "to remain," Pers. mandan "to remain"). Sense of "any large and stately house" is from 1512.

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mansion

noun
1. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac
2. a large and imposing house 

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mansion [ˈmӕnʃən] noun
a large (luxurious) house
Example: They own a country mansion.
Arabic: مَنْزِل فَخْم، قَصْر
Chinese (Simplified): 大宅第,官邸
Chinese (Traditional): 大宅第,官邸
Czech: panské sídlo, zámeček
Danish: herskabsvilla; palæ
Dutch: herenhuis
Estonian: häärber
Finnish: kartano
French: hôtel particulier; manoir
German: das Wohnhaus
Greek: έπαυλη, αρχοντικό
Hungarian: kúria; kastély
Icelandic: (sveita)setur
Indonesian: rumah besar dan mewah
Italian: (casa signorile), magione
Japanese: 大邸宅
Korean: 저택
Latvian: liela savrupmāja
Lithuanian: didžiulis namas, rūmai
Norwegian: herskapsbolig
Polish: dwór, pałac
Portuguese (Brazil): mansão
Portuguese (Portugal): palacete
Romanian: conac
Russian: особняк
Slovak: panské sídlo, zámoček
Slovenian: graščina
Spanish: mansión
Swedish: stort hus, herrgård
Turkish: konak, köşk
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Mansion

Man"or\, n. [OE. maner, OF. maneir habitation, village, F. manoir manor, prop. the OF. inf. maneir to stay, remain, dwell, L. manere, and so called because it was the permanent residence of the lord and of his tenants. See Mansion, and cf. Remain.]

1. (Eng. Law) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.

My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. --Shak.

Note: In these days, a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal, than the land or site, for a man may have a manor in gross, as the law terms it, that is, the right and interest of a court-baron, with the perquisites thereto belonging.

2. (American Law) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services. --Burrill.

Manor house, or Manor seat, the house belonging to a manor.
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Mansion

Manse\, n. [LL. mansa, mansus, mansum, a farm, fr. L. manere, mansum, to stay, dwell. See Mansion, Manor.]

1. A dwelling house, generally with land attached.

2. The parsonage; a clergyman's house. [Scot.]

Capital manse, the manor house, or lord's court.
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Mansion

Man"sion\, n. [OF. mansion, F. maison, fr. L. mansio a staying, remaining, a dwelling, habitation, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, dwell; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Manse, Manor, Menagerie, Menial, Permanent.]

1. A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.]

In my Father's house are many mansions. --John xiv. 2.

These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. --Den?am.

2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

3. (Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. --Chaucer.

4. 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. --Chaucer.

Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. --Blackstone.
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Man"sion\, v. i. To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] --Mede.
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Mansion

Ma"ny\, n. [See Meine, Mansion.] A retinue of servants; a household. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Men*ag"er*ie\, n. [F. m['e]nagerie, fr. m['e]nager to keep house, m['e]nage household. See Menial, Mansion.]

1. A piace where animals are kept and trained.

2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
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Men"ial\, a. [OE. meneal, fr. meine, maine, household, OF. maisni['e]e, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., Meiny.]

1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

Two menial dogs before their master pressed. --Dryden.

2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean. " Menial offices." --Swift.
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Per"ma*nent\, a. [L. permanens, -entis, p. pr. of permanere to stay or remain to the end, to last; per + manere to remain: cf. F. permanent. See Per-, and Mansion.] Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.

Eternity stands permanent and fixed. --Dryden.

Permanent gases (Chem. & Physics), hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide; -- also called incondensible or incoercible gases, before their liquefaction in 1877.

Permanent way, the roadbed and superstructure of a finished railway; -- so called in distinction from the contractor's temporary way.

Permanent white (Chem.), barium sulphate (heavy spar), used as a white pigment or paint, in distinction from white lead, which tarnishes and darkens from the formation of the sulphide.

Syn: Lasting; durable; constant. See Lasting.
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Re*main"\ (r?-m?n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Remained (-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining.] [OF. remaindre, remanoir, L. remanere; pref. re- re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, Remnant.]

1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

Gather up the fragments that remain. --John vi. 12.

Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. --1 Cor. xv. 6.

That . . . remains to be proved. --Locke.

2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

Remain a widow at thy father's house. --Gen. xxxviii. 11.

Childless thou art; childless remain. --Milton.

Syn: To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell; abide; last; endure.
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