vicarage

English

Etymology

From vicar +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkəɹɪd͡ʒ/

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Noun

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

Related terms

• vicarate

Translations

residence of vicar

• Danish: præstebolig c, præstegård c
• Finnish: pappila (fi)
• French: vicariat (fr) m
• German: Pfarrhaus (de) n
• Hungarian: paplak (hu), parókia (hu)
• Norman: probytaithe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prestebolig m, prestegard m, prestegård m

  Nynorsk: prestegard m

• Russian: дом священника m (dom svjaščennika)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: fara f

• Swedish: prästgård (sv) c

duties or office of vicar

• Catalan: vicariat m, curat (ca) m
• Danish: pastorat
• Finnish: papinvirka
• French: vicariat (fr) m
• Norman: probytaithe m
• Swedish: pastorat (sv) n or c