abbacy

1. 1.

   the jurisdiction or office of an abbot

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Other forms of abbacy

plural

abbacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abbacy

What does abbacy mean?

abbacy means "the jurisdiction or office of an abbot".

How many syllables are in abbacy?

abbacy has 3 syllables: ab-ba-cy. The stress falls on "ab".

Is abbacy a common word?

abbacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.