chwdn.

Noun

churchwarden (plural churchwardens)

1. (UK) A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.
   • At first, not knowing any better, I used sometimes to copy a nude on the pavement. The first I did was outside St Martin's-in-the-Fields church. A fellow in black—I suppose he was a churchwarden or something—came out in a tearing rage.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
2. (US) A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.