mansioun
English edit
Noun edit
mansioun (plural mansiouns)
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mansioun (plural mansiouns)
- A place where one makes their home or dwells; a home:
- A house, hostel, palace, etc; a purpose-built dwelling or habitation.
- A heavenly habitation or abode.
- (figurative) The abode of a human behaviour.
- (rare) An animal's dwelling or abode.
- (rare) A temporary waypoint on a journey.
- The action of living somewhere; residence.
- An astrological house or mansion.
Quotations edit
- 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
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Descendants edit
- English: mansion
References edit
- “mansiǒun, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.