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American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The house in which a parish priest or minister lives.
  2. n. An Anglican rector's dwelling.
  3. n. An Anglican rector's office and benefice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
  2. n. A rector's mansion or parsonage-house.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church.
  2. n. The residence of an Anglican rector.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
  2. n. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

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