Definition of Mansion

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Mansion

A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

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

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

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

To dwell; to reside.

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Mansion Quotations

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
Roald Dahl

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
James Caan

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings Bryan

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
Tanya Tucker

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
Terence Stamp

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
Corey Haim

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
Larry Norman

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
Allen Tate

Mansion Translations

mansion in Dutch is herenhuis
mansion in German is Villa
mansion in Italian is villa
mansion in Spanish is chalet

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