mansion
/ˈmæn.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
An astrological house; a station of the moon.
noun
One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you."
- "These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep."
- "The many mansions in one east London house of God."
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.