vestry
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
Types & categories
- commission hypernym
Parts & wholes
- vestryman member meronym
- vestrywoman member meronym
Sense 2 noun
a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
Types & categories
- room hypernym
Parts & wholes
- church building part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | vestryman |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | vestrywoman |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | commission |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | church building |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | room |