What does "mansion" mean?
Mansion: These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den 2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
Additional senses
- 2.(Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer.
- 3.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.
- 4.To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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