mansion

Meaning

Noun

• A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
• A luxurious flat (apartment).
• A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
• A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
• An astrological house; a station of the moon.
• One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
• An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
• Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Origin

• From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō ("dwelling, stopping-place"), from the past participle stem of manēre.