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VESTRYMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vestryman mean?
• VESTRYMAN (noun)
The noun VESTRYMAN has 1 sense:
1. a man who is a member of a church vestry
Familiarity information: VESTRYMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is a member of a church vestry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("vestryman" is a kind of...):
church officer (a church official)
Holonyms ("vestryman" is a member of...):
vestry (in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church)
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