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noun
- A large house or building.
- (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
- (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- Late C14: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale", Canterbury Tales
Translations: Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Latin mansio, mansiÅ "dwelling, stopping-place", from the past participle stem of manere, manÄre "stay".
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