parsonage
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈpɑr.sən.ɪdʒ/
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parroquia
- In a country parsonage up on Murray's Hill, there's the Reverend Lispenard who knows our story.
Examples
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The house across the street, that's the parsonage.
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As soon as a new minister moved into the parsonage, Palmberg was there introducing himself.
Fiction book (1995) -
We'll drive to the parsonage.
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Originally, we are told, he came from a parsonage.
Academic text (2000) -
At the parsonage, when Lettie saw what was for dinner, she was overwhelmed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Since you can't remain here, the reverend and I would be pleased to have you stay at the parsonage until everything is resolved.
Fiction book (2000) -
The preacher worked in a small, shabby parsonage, whose parson had the look of a man to whom every penny counted.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Bronte children were transformed by nightly reading and discussion around the dining room table at the Haworth Parsonage.
Academic text (1995) -
Somewhere around 1780, the Peaks donated land for the Dutch Reformed Church, the burial ground, a parsonage, and a carriage shed.
Fiction book (1991) -
The house would be the parsonage for the church they were building on the adjacent land.
Synonyms
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7.7
A house provided by a church for its leader
4
9.9
A house where a church minister lives, often large or impressive
2
8.8
A house that a church gives to its priest
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word parsonage comes from parson, a church person like a priest, and the ending -age, which turns a word into a place or thing. So a parsonage is the house a church gives to its parson.