CHURCHWARDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does churchwarden mean? 

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

1. an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCHWARDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

church officer (a church official)

 Context examples 

The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his churchwarden's pew for forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This waiter, who was middle-aged and spare, looked for help to a waiter of more authority—a stout, potential old man, with a double chin, in black breeches and stockings, who came out of a place like a churchwarden's pew, at the end of the coffee-room, where he kept company with a cash-box, a Directory, a Law-list, and other books and papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)