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mansion

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mansion (plural mansions)

A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: Printed for Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491 ↗; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388 ↗, [https://archive.org/stream/hydriotaphiaurne00browuoft#page/
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(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.

1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

(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.)

1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
In my Father's house are many mansions transterm μονή: if it were not so, I would have told you.
These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
The many mansions in one east London house of God.

Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

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