Definition of "mansion" in английский

noun

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

2. (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).

3. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.

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

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

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

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

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

   • The many mansions in one east London house of God.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.