mansion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  2. A luxurious flat (apartment). UK
  3. An apartment building. Hong-Kong
  4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. obsolete
  5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage. obsolete
    — 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.
  6. An astrological house; a station of the moon. historical
  7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky. Chinese
  8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.) in-plural
    — In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
  9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

词形变化

mansions plural mansioun alternative,obsolete

词源

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.
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