ADVOWSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advowson mean? 

• ADVOWSON (noun)
  The noun ADVOWSON has 1 sense:

1. the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice

  Familiarity information: ADVOWSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVOWSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("advowson" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)