Noun

(en noun)

(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).

(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.

* Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:

In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.

* Denham

These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.

* 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:

The many mansions in one east London house of God.

Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Noun

(en noun)

a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=14 citation , passage=The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee.}}