mansion
/ˈmæn.ʃən/ noun B2- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- An apartment building.
- An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- 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.)
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Plural mansions
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In one of the aristocratic mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fountain, a second marriage feast was being celebrated, almost at the same hour with the nuptial repast given by Dantès.
The only men worth considering are Adolph Mayer, of 13, Great George Street, Westminster; Louis La Rothière, of Campden Mansions, Notting Hill; and Hugo Oberstein, 13, Caulfield Gardens, Kensington.
It was almost noon when they reached town and found their way to “Beechwood.” It was quite a fine old mansion, set back from the street in a seclusion of green elms and branching beeches.
From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion.
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