mansion
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
Noun 4 meanings
A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
A luxurious flat (apartment).
An apartment building.
One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.
MANSION at a glance
MANSION has 7 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (M 3 + A 1 + N 1 + S 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,825 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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