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 small mansion; a mansionette.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 6, author=Leslie Eaton, title=Katrina Victims Find a Solution: Modular House, work=New York Times citation

, passage=But since the storm, modular houses, which range from simple shotgun-style cottages to fancy minimansions , are starting to appear across the Gulf Coast, as public officials and private citizens search for ways to speed the slow pace of recovery and begin experimenting with new forms of shelter. }}