vicarage

From vicar +‎ -age.

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vicarage (countable and uncountable, plural vicarages)

1. (countable) The residence of a vicar.

   Coordinate terms: rectory, parsonage, curatage, manse

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288:

     Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.

2. The benefice, duties, or office of a vicar.

   Synonym: vicarship

   Coordinate terms: curateship, curacy, parsonship, parsonhood, rectorship, rectorate, priestship, priesthood