The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MANSIONS
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What does MANSIONS mean?
MANSIONS noun- A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- A luxurious flat (apartment).
- A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
- A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
- An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (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.)
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.