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A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vestiary, sacristy
Antonyms: none provided
An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: parochial church council, PCC, parish council (ecclesiastical sense, uncommon)
- The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: parochial church council, PCC, parish council
Antonyms: none provided
a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sacristy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: room
in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: committee, commission
From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
ри́зница
(ríznica)
— room in a church
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Bulgarian:
сакристия
(sakristija)
— room in a church
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Old Czech:
obláčěnicě
— room in a church
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Danish:
sakristi
— room in a church
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Dutch:
sacristie
— room in a church
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Finnish:
sakaristo
— room in a church
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French:
sacristie
— room in a church
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Georgian:
საცავი
(sacavi)
— room in a church
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Georgian:
სალარო
— room in a church
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German:
Sakristei
— room in a church
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Greek:
αποδυτήριο
(apodytírio)
— room in a church
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Latin:
sacristia
— room in a church
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Macedonian:
ри́зница
(ríznica)
— room in a church
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Macedonian:
сакри́стија
(sakrístija)
— room in a church
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Macedonian:
ѓа́коник
(ǵákonik)
— room in a church
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Persian:
رختکن
— room in a church
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Polish:
zakrystia
— room in a church
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Russian:
ри́зница
(ríznica)
— room in a church
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Russian:
сакристия
(sakristija)
— room in a church
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Scottish Gaelic:
seòmar-culaidh
— room in a church
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Swedish:
sakristia
— room in a church
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Bulgarian:
черковно настоятелство
(čerkovno nastojatelstvo)
— committee of parishioners
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Finnish:
kirkkoneuvosto
— committee of parishioners
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Georgian:
მრევლის კრება
(mrevlis ḳreba)
— committee of parishioners
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Macedonian:
паро́хиска у́права
(paróhiska úprava)
— committee of parishioners
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Māori:
wēteri
— committee of parishioners
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Polish:
rada parafialna
— committee of parishioners
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Russian:
приходское управле́ние
(prixodskoje upravlénije)
— committee of parishioners