Mansion Meaning
/ˈmæn.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
nounA luxurious flat (apartment).
Sentence Examples
The cat burglar must have entered the mansion from the roof.
There are no fewer than a dozen bedrooms in this mansion.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The wealthy businessman lived in a huge ____ with twenty bedrooms on the hill.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The wealthy businessman lived in a large and very beautiful ____ that had its own movie theater.
Word Origin & 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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The wealthy businessman lived in a huge ____ with twenty bedrooms on the hill.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The wealthy businessman lived in a large and very beautiful ____ that had its own movie theater.