VICARAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vicarage mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICARAGE (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 ("vicarage" 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 "vicarage"):

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

 Context examples 

Mr. Tregennis brought back the account to the vicarage, and I at once hurried over with him to consult you.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eventually the poor fellow took to books, and lived and died in a country vicarage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The preparing and the going abroad in such weather, with the sacrifice of his children after dinner, were evils, were disagreeables at least, which Mr. John Knightley did not by any means like; he anticipated nothing in the visit that could be at all worth the purchase; and the whole of their drive to the vicarage was spent by him in expressing his discontent.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The lodger occupied two rooms at the vicarage, which were in an angle by themselves, the one above the other.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is but a small place, with an ivied church, a fine vicarage, and a row of red-brick cottages each in its own little garden.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His extreme attention to my mother—wanting her to sit in the vicarage pew, that she might hear the better, for my mother is a little deaf, you know—it is not much, but she does not hear quite quick.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was unlike anything in the vicarage garden.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And from her great, her more than commonly thankful delight towards Mrs. Elton for being there, Emma guessed that there had been a little show of resentment towards Jane, from the vicarage quarter, which was now graciously overcome.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very sufficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any deficiency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)