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(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
puhekieltä A luxurious flat (apartment).
puhekieltä A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
puhekieltä A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
puhekieltä 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
puhekieltä One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
puhekieltä 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 (transterm): if it were not so, I would have told you.
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- 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.
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