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Rectory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The house in which a parish priest or minister lives.

n. An Anglican rector's dwelling.

n. An Anglican rector's office and benefice.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church.

n. The residence of an Anglican rector.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

n. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

n. A rector's mansion or parsonage-house.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

Word Usage

"This rectory is a delightful place to be in, in warm weather; but in winter, it must be the reverse of comfortable; all the room-windows opening as doors into the garden, vines hanging over them, &c., &c."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

residence

Hyponym

glebe house

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

parsonage

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

directory trajectory

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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