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vestry

/ˈvɛstɹi/

vestry noun: a room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.

Noun

vestry (plural vestries)

  1. A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
    • The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.
    • What a day, eh? Demmy, it's like the commencement of the rainy season in Bengal. But you'll find my carriage is watertight. Come along, my mother and Emmy are in the vestry.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    vestiary, sacristy
  2. An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
  3. A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
    • Near-synonyms: parochial church council, PCC, parish council (ecclesiastical sense, uncommon)
    • The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.

vestry meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Persian

vestry in Tamil

உடுப்பறை

vestry in Malayalam

പള്ളിയോടുചേർന്ന ചെറുചമയപ്പുര

vestry in Persian

room in a church
رختکن

Synonyms of vestry

All synonyms of vestry

Forms of vestry

pluralvestries

Plural of vestry: vestries

Origin of vestry

From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.

Words formed from vestry

Phrases with vestry

Questions about vestry

What does vestry mean?
Vestry means a room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
What is vestry in Tamil?
Vestry in Tamil is உடுப்பறை. See Vestry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vestry?
Vestry is a noun.
How do you pronounce vestry?
Vestry is pronounced /ˈvɛstɹi/.
What is the plural of vestry?
The plural of vestry is vestries.

Words near vestry in the dictionary

  1. vestpocket
  2. vestra culpa
  3. vestra culpas
  4. vestral
  5. vestries
  6. vestry
  7. vestry clerk
  8. vestry clerks
  9. vestrydom
  10. vestryism
  11. vestryman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vestry (page history and authors); vestry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vestry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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