Word Finder - mansion

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A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

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A luxurious flat (apartment).

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A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

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A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

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An astrological house; a station of the moon.

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One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

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(chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

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Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

An old mansion called the Priory dates in part from 1393.

The director lived in a Georgetown mansion with his wife and two dogs.

She ran from the mansion into the gardens and toward the forest.

The mansion was quiet, and she roamed until she found where everyone was.

It is a fine example of a Jacobean mansion, with a beautiful fountain in the middle of the court-yard.

She left the mansion into the cold night and scouted around.

Sir John Clopton destroyed the house in 1702 (as it had reverted to his family), and the mansion he built was in turn destroyed by Sir Francis Gastrell in 1759.

He was, however, induced to take it, and found in his patron's mansion at Portmore, on Lough Neagh, a congenial retreat.

She peeked from his bathroom into the largest bedroom suite in the mansion then stepped into the area serving as a living room and study.

She climbed onto the roof of the mansion then approached the peak.

N., is another fortified mansion, which is still inhabited.

She took a shower and padded through the quiet mansion to the kitchen.

Dan bypassed the mansion and led him towards the lake, where two forms stood on a large dock.

It wasn't a grand place, but it was a mansion next to what she was accustomed to.

Her glance towards the mountain mansion told him things were not going well.

Jenn didn't look back but strode straight to the mansion and inside.

Expensive cars lined the long drive to the mansion overlooking the hills.

The Mansion House was erected c. 1740.

The grandee's well-known mansion on the English Quay glittered with innumerable lights.

She wondered how long it'd take before every vamp in the mansion was waiting in the locker room to claim what they could from her.

Three miles south of Beauly is Beaufort Castle, the chief seat of the Lovats, a fine modern mansion in the Scottish baronial style.

Here he became private chaplain to Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery (1600-1686), whose hospitable mansion, Golden Grove, is immortalized in the title of Taylor's still popular manual of devotion, and whose first wife was a constant friend of Taylor.

Shipley Hall, to the south of Heanor, is a mansion built on a hill, amidst fine gardens.

The mansion rocked as Dusty's first set of explosions went off.

Not wanting to be around to hear Claire get her way, Sofia climbed onto the edge of Damian's balcony and stretched upward toward the ledge running around the mansion.

Pierre tossed her a familiar cell phone as they entered the mansion.

She tried to push the thought away and distract herself by wandering the mansion.

Jenn emerged from the mansion.

He extended and beautified the mansion.

She took it absent-mindedly and followed her friend through the mansion.

The remains of castles are few; the ancient Bolsover Castle is replaced by a castellated mansion of the 17th century; of the Norman Peak Castle near Castleton little is left; of Codnor Castle in the Erewash valley there are picturesque ruins of the 13th century.

Adjoining it are handsome municipal buildings (1891), and near it is the mansion house, built in 1725 from designs by the earl of Burlington.

A new mansion was erected in 1803.

Five miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells is Bayham Abbey, founded in 1200, where ruins of a church, a gateway, and dependent buildings adjoin the modern Tudor mansion.

Other prominent buildings are the United States court house and post office, the state supreme court house, the county court house, the state penitentiary, the state armoury and the executive mansion.

S., where (in a former mansion) some of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot defied search for eight days (1605); and Westwood, a fine hall of Elizabethan and Carolean date on the site of a Benedictine nunnery, a mile west of Droitwich, which offered a retreat to many Royalist cavaliers and churchmen during the Commonwealth.

They stand north of the modern mansion, but, with the exception of a beautiful pointed arch portal, are of small importance.

Two hundred yards east of the mansion is an ancient gateway, supposed to have led to the old House of Scone, and near it stands the cross of Scone, removed hither from its original site in the town.

The old-fashioned mansion of East Coates, dating from the 17th century, still stands in the close, and is occupied by functionaries of the cathedral.

The city is adorned by many other noble edifices both public and private, among which the following palaces may be mentionedTolomei (1205); Buonsignori, formerly Tegliacci, an elegant 14thcentury construction, restored in 1848; Grottanelli, formerly Pecci and anciently the residence of the captain of war, recently restored in its original style; Sansedoni; Marsilii; Piccolomini, now belonging to the Government and containing the state archives;1 Piccolomini delle Papesse, like the other Piccolomini mansion,.

The mansion of Boscobel is famous as the house in which Charles II.

A street named after it runs south from the Mansion House parallel with its course.

At this junction stand the Royal Exchange, the Mansion House (the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London) and the Bank of England, from which this important point in the communications of London is commonly known as " Bank."

A fine though circumscribed group of buildings is that in the heart of the City which includes the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House.

The Metropolitan District (commonly called the District) system serves Wimbledon, Richmond, Ealing and Harrow on the west, and passes eastward by Earl's Court, South Kensington, Victoria and Mansion House (City) to Whitechapel and Bow.

Burlington House, in Piccadilly, built in 1872 on the site of a mansion of the earls of Burlington, houses the Royal Society, the Chemical, Geological, Linnaean and Royal Astronomical Societies, the Society of Antiquaries and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which the annual meetings take place at different British or colonial towns in succession.

In 1902 a Mansion House Conference was convened by the lord mayor and a deputation was appointed which in 1903 pressed the solution of the matter upon the government.

The police courts of the City are held at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor or an alderman sitting as magistrate, and at the Guildhall, where the aldermen preside in rotation.

Tite also agreed with Dr Stukeley's suggestion that on the site of the Mansion House (formerly Stocks Market) stood the Roman forum, and he states that a line drawn from that spot as a centre would pass by the pavements found on the site of the Excise Office.

In 1737 the Fleet ditch between Holborn Bridge and Fleet Bridge was covered over, and Stocks Market was removed from the site of the Mansion House to the present Farringdon Street, and called Fleet market.