In my Father's house are many mansions. --John xiv.
2.
These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave
their mansions keep. --Den?am.
2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence:
Any house of considerable size or pretension.
3. (Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st
{House}, 8. --Chaucer.
4. The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in
its monthly revolution. [Obs.]
The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the
moon. --Chaucer.
{Mansion house}, the house in which one resides;
specifically, in London and some other cities, the
official residence of the Lord Mayor. --Blackstone.