MANSION

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.] In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den

2.
n.

The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

3.
n.

A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer.

4.
n.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.

5.
v.

To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.

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