Noun: mansion
| Singular | mansion |
| Plural | mansions |
Sample Sentences
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According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah. [1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:]
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In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John XIV:2:]
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These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep. [1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets:]
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The many mansions in one east London house of God. [2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003]
Nouns inflected like mansion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
mansioun', Middle English Nouns '
mansioun', Latin Nouns '
mānsiō'.
Verbs referencing "mansion"
Portuguese Nouns
mesão.