Definitions for deanery

deanery dean·er·y

Spelling: [dee-nuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈdi nə ri/

Deanery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in deanery (adeenry).

Definitions for deanery

noun

  1. the office, jurisdiction, district, or residence of an ecclesiastical dean.

Origin of deanery

First recorded in 1250-1300, deanery is from the Middle English word denerie. See dean1, -ery

Examples for deanery

Were not these circumstances which ought to have made the deanery a convenience to him?

The garden intervened between them and the deanery, and they could not be heard.

It was rumoured in Brotherton, and the rumour reached the deanery.

That had been his intention, at least till he saw Lord George at the deanery.

Let it be accorded to him that he had done that, and then perhaps he might visit the deanery.

Yes,—I can call at the deanery; but I shouldn't know what to say when I got there.

But the going and coming were so fixed that the two men met at the deanery.

He is to sup at the deanery to-morrow, and I am to be in waiting to see him.

There's somebody's eyes peering at me over the deanery blinds.

"He might have wanted me to take a errand round to the deanery," soliloquized he.

Word Value for deanery
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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