PARSONAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parsonage mean? 

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

1. an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARSONAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

parsonage; rectory; vicarage

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

residence (the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parsonage"):

glebe house (a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice))

 Context examples 

I remembered the answer of the old housekeeper at the parsonage, when I had asked to see the clergyman.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But, my dear, we must touch up the Colonel to do some thing to the parsonage, and make it comfortable for them, before Lucy goes to it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There is the parsonage: a tidy-looking house, and I understand the clergyman and his wife are very decent people.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds.

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

Now, there was nothing so charming to her imagination as the unpretending comfort of a well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton, but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably had none.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed to suggest some herself—some shelves in the closet up stairs.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A fine lady in a country parsonage was quite out of place.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Edward made no answer; but when she had turned away her head, gave her a look so serious, so earnest, so uncheerful, as seemed to say, that he might hereafter wish the distance between the parsonage and the mansion-house much greater.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)