Definitions for chancellery

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chancellery chan·cel·ler·y

Spelling: [chan-suh-luh-ree, -sluh-ree, -s Chancellery is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 452 anagrams from letters in chancellery (acceehllnry).

Definitions for chancellery

noun

1. the position of a chancellor.
2. the office or department of a chancellor.
3. the office attached to an embassy or consulate.
4. a building or room occupied by a chancellor's department.

Origin of chancellery

1250-1300; Middle English chancellerie Anglo-French, equivalent to chanceller chancellor + -ie -y³

Examples for chancellery

There was war in the Eastern world; and palace and chancellery were ablaze.

When and how he entered the chancellery and who appointed him, no one could remember.

I fancy that every chancellery in Europe suspected that something was in the wind.

What has become of the chamber of the chancellery, where Saint Louis consummated his marriage?

So, partly out of curiosity and partly out of sympathy, I called at the chancellery.

In the chancellery where he worked, no kind of notice was taken of him.

A chancellery office, headed by a chief and three deputies, coordinates the committee's overall administrative activities.

And then I shall have a quarrel with the chancellery on my hands.

The "Colossus of the North" came into being to haunt every chancellery.

The instrument is in the Liber Arrendamentorum, from Lucretia's chancellery.