rectory

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rec=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

rectory, n. [Cf. OF. rectorie or rectorerie, LL. rectoria.].

•  The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.  [1913 Webster]
•  A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rectory, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a rector's house.
2 (in the Church of England) a rector's benefice.

Etymology

AF & OF rectorie or med.L rectoria (as RECTOR)

THESAURUS

rectory

Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, advowson, benefice, building, care of souls, casa, charge, church house, clergy house, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, curacy, cure, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, glebe, hall, house, houseboat, incumbency, lake dwelling, living, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, pastorage, pastorate, penthouse, prefabricated house, prelacy, presbytery, presidential palace, ranch house, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house, vicarage

ROGET THESAURUS

rectory

Temple

N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.