LITTLE OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Little Office mean? 

• LITTLE OFFICE (noun)
  The noun LITTLE OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

  Familiarity information: LITTLE OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTLE OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Little Office" is a kind of...):

office (a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

 Context examples 

They performed towards him every little office of affection and duty with gentleness, and he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She sits in her own little office, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers and sees whether she has anything which would suit them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity—except his wife, who moved close to Tom.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)