as in vicarage
the building in which a parson lives
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Recent Examples of parsonage
Now there are, of course, there's something called a parsonage exception where members of the clergy in the United States can exclude the value of their dwelling, but there's rules that go around with that.
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Following the break from the church, the Jonas family moved out of the parsonage house and into a two-bedroom home.
—Ilana Frost, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In the application, the organization claimed to own 11 churches, a parsonage and Powell’s residence as assets.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The Haworth parsonage already attracts nearly one million visitors each year, per the Guardian.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Following the break from the church, the Jonas family moved out of the parsonage house and into a two-bedroom home.
—Ilana Frost, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In the application, the organization claimed to own 11 churches, a parsonage and Powell’s residence as assets.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The Haworth parsonage already attracts nearly one million visitors each year, per the Guardian.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsonage
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Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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This former vicarage, built in 1876, is considered one of Sweden’s most haunted houses.—
Andrea Romano,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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The property was once a 19th-century Catholic school and church campus, complete with a rectory and nunnery, and each room has a rotary phone and other touches of the not-so-distant past.—
Kate Kassin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
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The property also comes with a guesthouse — the former rectory — which has been reconfigured as a two-bedroom, one-bath ADU-ish bonus.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2026
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The minimalist seaside manse was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese starchitect Tadao Ando, and was originally built for, and then bought from, financier and art collector Richard Sachs.—
India Roby,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2026
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The bash was held at the West Coast manse of none other than Amazon king Jeff Bezos, Brady’s neighbor in Indian Creek Village.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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Elliott was allegedly directly involved in organizing and hosting dogfighting events, including at his residence in Carver.—
Juli McDonald,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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In a 5-1 vote, with one abstention, the Oakland City Council approved stricter rules for vehicles that remain parked in front of residences for months on end and tents that generate waste and, in some cases, hazardous fires.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
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City crews had not yet arrived to demolish his old dwelling.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The 6,620-square-foot dwelling had six bedrooms, each of which had their own walk-in closet and bathroom.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
16 Apr. 2026
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On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.—
Sarah Moss,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting.—
Monitor reviewers,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Dec. 2025
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As Mercury joins Mars in Aries in your 9th house, curiosity turns into action and ideas want movement from you.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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For One Person After her husband died, Betty Constable lived alone in her house on Orchard Circle in Princeton.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Another neighbor bought a mattress for Slavin for his temporary abode.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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But the year after settling into the colossal abode, Lopez and Affleck separated.—
India Roby,
Architectural Digest,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Parsonage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsonage. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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