deanery
1
9.3
- noun
- /ˈdiːnəri/
:
decanato
- The Diocese is divided into eight deaneries with a total of 96 parishes, missions, and stations, and seven centers for campus ministry.
Examples
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In five years, from 1995-2000, the Centre grew from an invisible entity with an indifferent absentee director "overseeing" one non-regular junior staff member and a couple of adjuncts to a regional showcase center prominently housed in the deanery.
Academic text (2003) -
Where is the 'deanery of nursing' to provide quality assurance of training to a standardised format?
Academic text (2010) -
OK, You get to spend in most deaneries four months doing a research project, usually in your second year.
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As an additional benefit, organize these schedules per deanery.
Blog text (6) -
That term, the Centre was moved to new offices in the deanery, and a second Fulbrighter joined us, a professor of public policy.
Academic text (2003) -
This is a relevant topic now, and it will certainly be in our Archdiocese in the years to come as the Archdiocese continues its examination of how the Church currently finds itself structurally in each of its deaneries.
Blog text (7) -
The next phase sees the process kick off in Indianapolis, and it appears that all four deaneries will examine their infrastructure at one time given the interconnectedness of so many of the parishes in the Indianapolis area.
Blog text (7) -
He parked in a designated visitors' space and walked briskly around the North Cloister and the administration building, turned right, the College of Preachers on his left, and followed the road south past the library and the deanery until reaching the Norman Arch, the main visitors' entrance to the lovely Bishop's Garden.
Fiction book (1990) -
The new scholars gathered for orientation in the deanery of the university, where they met their faculty advisors.
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After the meeting, the administrators returned to the deanery to discuss the proposed changes to the curriculum.
Synonyms
20
7.7
A house provided by a church for its leader
5
9.3
A house a church gives to its priest or minister to live in
2
8.8
A house that a church gives to its priest
How Big
- Specialized
2
9.9
- Formal
107
7.6
1
9.3
138
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deanery comes from dean, which comes from an old Latin word decanus meaning 'leader of ten'. So a deanery is the dean's house or office, the place where that leader lives or works.