Mansion (disambiguation)
- 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 [3]
It derives from the same Latin source as the words manor and manse, the noun mansio, mansionis, from manere, to remain.
Although the most commonly recognized meaning today is probably “large house”, mansion is a curious word because in this sense a ‘’mansion’’ does not technically exist: there is no architectural building called a ‘’mansion’’ and no social “mansion”, as using the word to refer to a specific residence falls outside of the rules of etiquette.
Today, the word "mansion" is generally only 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:
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 [4]
- These poets near our princes sleep,
And in one grave their mansions keep. –John Denham. [5]
- 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
- ↑ The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
- ↑ Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth edition copyright 1998 by Merriam-Webster Incorporated.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ sourced at: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/ella_wheeler_wilcox/quotes
- ↑ Sir John Denham, Irish Poet, from On Mr. Abraham Cowley: His Death and Burial Amongst the Ancient Poets. Sourced at http://www.poetry-love-poems.com/denham/on-mr-abraham-cowley.htm