Mansion (disambiguation)

A mansion can be:  :

• A dwelling; a house or room(s) in a house
• A place in heaven; “the mansions”
• A manor house; the residence of the Lord of the Manor; the principal dwelling on an estate; also generally used as a generic term to refer to any great house, a large and seemingly opulent residence.
• A Japanese condominium
• Formerly in astronomy, a place in the heavens; any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path
• in astrology one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

It derives from the same Latin source as the words manor and manse, the noun mansio, mansionis, from manere, to remain.

A mansion is a large house, but beyond that its use is subjective and can be pejorative: today, the word is mainly used by those in the real estate trade.

For a discussion of the history and use of the word mansion, the origin and development of the concept of mansions and the composition of their household staff, see great house.

For specific residential styles that are often or may be referred to as mansions, see:

• castle
• chateau
• country house
• bungalow
• faux chateau
• manor house
• mcmansion
• palace
• villa

Use of term in literature and popular culture

• All love that has not friendship for its base,

Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• These poets near our princes sleep,

And in one grave their mansions keep. –John Denham.

• In my father’s house there are many mansions John 14:2

• Ain't no place I'd rather be

The only place that's right for me In a chromed out mansion in paradise In the sky --Tupac Shakur "Thugz Mansion"

• The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. --Chaucer.

References

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