Etymology

Noun

1. A large house or building.
2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
4. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
5. 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
6. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
7. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement (after John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions").