MANSFIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mansfield mean? 

• MANSFIELD (noun)
  The noun MANSFIELD has 2 senses:

1. New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)

2. a town in north central Ohio

  Familiarity information: MANSFIELD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANSFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Katherine Mansfield; Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp; Mansfield

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in north central Ohio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Mansfield" is a part of...):

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Norris took possession of the White House, the Grants arrived at the Parsonage, and these events over, everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The talk wandered from Mrs. Humphry Ward's new book to Shaw's latest play, through the future of the drama to reminiscences of Mansfield.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had come, intending to spend only a few days with them; but Mansfield promised well, and there was nothing to call him elsewhere.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The season and duties which brought Mr. Bertram back to Mansfield took Mr. Crawford into Norfolk.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He is used to much gayer places than Mansfield.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am to leave Mansfield Park, and go to the White House, I suppose, as soon as she is removed there.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mansfield shall cure you both, and without any taking in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It required a longer time, however, than Mrs. Norris was inclined to allow, to reconcile Fanny to the novelty of Mansfield Park, and the separation from everybody she had been used to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Grant, who came consequently to reside at Mansfield; and on proving to be a hearty man of forty-five, seemed likely to disappoint Mr. Bertram's calculations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)