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VICARAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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:
At the vicarage you passed through the orchard and the side hedge, coming out under the window of the lodger Tregennis.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They now walked on together quietly, till within view of the vicarage pales, when a sudden resolution, of at least getting Harriet into the house, made her again find something very much amiss about her boot, and fall behind to arrange it once more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You then walked swiftly for the mile which separated you from the vicarage.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He appears to have walked away swiftly in the direction of the vicarage.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This he filled with the same oil as that used at the vicarage, and he carefully timed the period which it would take to be exhausted.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At his invitation we had taken tea at the vicarage and had come to know, also, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, an independent gentleman, who increased the clergyman’s scanty resources by taking rooms in his large, straggling house.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
