vicarage

English

Etymology

From vicar +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

vicarage (countable and uncountable, plural vicarages)

1. (countable) The residence of a vicar.

   Coordinate terms: rectory, parsonage, 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.

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