parsonage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a house provided by a church as the residence of its minister or parson

   The new minister and her family moved into the parsonage beside the church.

2. 2
   noun

   historically, the property or income assigned to support a parish minister

   The old deed described the fields and tithes belonging to the parsonage.

Formed from parson + -age. The word first denoted the office or benefice of a parson and the property set aside to support it; it then became the usual name for the minister's residence itself.

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