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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rectory has 1 sense
- rectory(n = noun.artifact) parsonage, vicarage - an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector; Array has particulars: glebe house
is a kind of residence
CIDE DICTIONARY
rectory, n. [Cf. OF. rectorie or rectorerie, LL. rectoria.].
- The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. [1913 Webster]
- A rector's mansion; a parsonage house. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rectory, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a rector's house.
2 (in the Church of England) a rector's benefice.
1 a rector's house.
2 (in the Church of England) a rector's benefice.
Etymology
AF & OF rectorie or med.L rectoria (as RECTOR)
THESAURUS
rectory
Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, advowson, benefice, building, care of souls, casa, charge, church house, clergy house, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, curacy, cure, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, glebe, hall, house, houseboat, incumbency, lake dwelling, living, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, pastorage, pastorate, penthouse, prefabricated house, prelacy, presbytery, presidential palace, ranch house, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house, vicarageROGET THESAURUS
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Temple
N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
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