churchwarden
(UK) A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.
Definitions
(UK) A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.
Comments
(US) A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.
In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.
Comments
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "churchwarden".
⚡About Tech, Dev & AI slang
The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
See all Tech, Dev & AI slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "churchwarden" (C)
Browse all slang words starting with C.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- people's warden71%
(UK, Christianity) A type of churchwarden elected annually by the congregation as a whole.
- churchmaster66%
(obsolete, UK, _, dialectal) A churchwarden.
- kyrkmaster63%
(obsolete, christianity, Northern England, Scotland) A churchwarden.
- verger62%
(chiefly, UK, Irish, Christianity) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.