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noun
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A luxurious flat (apartment).
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Usage: UK
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noun
An apartment building.
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Usage: Hong-Kong
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noun
A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
An astrological house; a station of the moon.
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Usage: historical
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noun
One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Chinese
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
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Usage: in-plural
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noun
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
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noun
a large and imposing house
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mansion house, manse, hall, residence
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Broader terms: house
Narrower terms: manor, manor house, palace, castle, stately home
noun
(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house, planetary house
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Broader terms: region, part
Narrower terms: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram, Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull, Gemini, Gemini the Twins, Twins, Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab, Leo, Leo the Lion, Lion, Virgo, Virgo the Virgin, Virgin, Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales, Scorpio, Scorpio the Scorpion, Scorpion, Sagittarius, Sagittarius the Archer, Archer, Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat, Goat, Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer, Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish
History
Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.
Across languages
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