Mansion
['mænʃ(ə)n] or ['mænʃən]
Definition
(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dwelling, seat, residence, habitation, dwelling-house, mansion-house.
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Definition
n. a house esp. one of some size: a manor-house: the dwelling of a nobleman or a landholder: (B.) a resting-place.—ns. Man′sion-house a mansion: the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London; Man′sionry (Shak.) a mansion place of residence.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in a mansion where there is a haunted chamber, denotes sudden misfortune in the midst of contentment. To dream of being in a mansion, indicates for you wealthy possessions. To see a mansion from distant points, foretells future advancement.
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Examples
- There was a pleased bustle all though the Shelby mansion, that day, in expectation of the arrival of young Mas'r George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Important interviews would be broken off to get in a visit to some old historical mansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So goes the wintry day outside the Dedlock mansion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Bute at the parsonage nightly looked out to see if the sky was red over the elms behind which the Hall stood, and the mansion was on fire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What would not your grandmothers have given to be asked to Lady Hester's parties in that now decayed mansion? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For a fortnight past no cloth had been destroyed; no outrage on mill or mansion had been committed in the three parishes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My people, save the few who are now with me, do but tarry my presence to transport his honoured remains to their last mansion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was an apartment at the side of the Boffin mansion, known as Mr Boffin's room. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She had no experience beyond her father's cottage; and the mansion of the lord of the manor was the chiefest type of grandeur she could conceive. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As George walked down Southampton Row, from Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion, in two different stories two heads on the look-out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am aware, sir, that it would not become me to carry on my little traffic under the windows of your mansion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the drawing-room of which mansion, there presently entered to them the most remarkable girl Mr. James Harthouse had ever seen. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These mansions are to be had either unfurnished, where, if you have credit with Messrs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the captain's cottage she could suggest mansions she had never seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Why are we now in the mansions of the rich and great, my friends? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In--my --Father's--house--are--many--mansions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As in all Southern mansions hospitality was rife at the Greenes’, and it happened that one evening a number of gentlemen were gathered there who had fought under the General in the Revolution. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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