rectory

noun
🔊/ˈrektəri/
🔊/ˈrektəri/
(plural rectories)
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  1. a house where the rector of a church lives, or lived in the past堂区主持人的住宅Topics Buildingsc2
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Old French rectorie or medieval Latin rectoria, from Latin rector ‘ruler’, from rect- ‘ruled’, from the verb regere.