PRESBYTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does presbytery mean? 

• PRESBYTERY (noun)
  The noun PRESBYTERY has 1 sense:

1. building reserved for the officiating clergy

  Familiarity information: PRESBYTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESBYTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building reserved for the officiating clergy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("presbytery" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Holonyms ("presbytery" is a part of...):

church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

 Context examples 

By his black robe and the eight-pointed cross upon his sleeve, Alleyne recognized him as one of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, whose presbytery was at Baddesley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced, however, that a knight of Poitou, Sir Gaston d'Estelle, was staying there on his way back from Lithuania, where he had served a term with the Teutonic knights under the land-master of the presbytery of Marienberg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)