mansioun

English

Noun

mansioun (plural mansiouns)

1. Obsolete spelling of mansion.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mansion, mansyon, mansione, mancioun, manysoun, mansyoun, mancyon, mancion

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈsjuːn/, /ˈmansjun/

Noun

mansioun (plural mansiouns)

1. A place where one makes their home or dwells; a home:
   1. A house, hostel, palace, etc; a purpose-built dwelling or habitation.
   2. A heavenly habitation or abode.
   3. (figurative) The abode of a human behaviour.
   4. (rare) An animal's dwelling or abode.
   5. (rare) A temporary waypoint on a journey.
2. The action of living somewhere; residence.
3. An astrological house or mansion.

Quotations

• 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

  Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: mansion

References

• “mansiǒun, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.