noun
Meaning 1
The residence of the minister of a parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
parsonage
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CMU ARPABET: P AA1 R S AH0 N IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The house, lands, tithes, etc. set apart for the support of the minister of a parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vicarage, rectory
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: residence
Narrower terms: glebe house
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English parson Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English parsonage From parson + -age.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: fara — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Danish: præstegård — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Danish: præstebolig — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Dutch: pastorie — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Faroese: prestagarður — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Finnish: pappila — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- French: cure — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- French: presbytère — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- German: (evangelisches) Pfarrhaus — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Hungarian: paplak — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Hungarian: plébánia — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Hungarian: parókia — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Polish: plebania — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Polish: probostwo — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Silesian: fara — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Lower Sorbian: fara — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Spanish: casa parroquial — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Spanish: casa del cura — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Spanish: casa rectoral — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Spanish: rectoría — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
- Turkish: papaz evi — house provided by the church as residence of a priest.
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