vestry

1. 1.

   in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church

   Broadercommittee
2. 2.

   a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held

   Synonymssacristy

   Broaderroom

   Part ofchurch

Other forms of vestry

plural

vestries·

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 vestry

What does vestry mean?

vestry means "in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vestry?

vestry has 2 syllables: ve-stry. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vestry?

Close synonyms include sacristy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vestry a common word?

vestry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.