Usually means: Long-stemmed pipe for smoking.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word churchwarden:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. churchwarden: Merriam-Webster
  2. churchwarden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. churchwarden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. churchwarden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. churchwarden: Vocabulary.com
  6. Churchwarden, churchwarden: Wordnik
  7. churchwarden: Wiktionary
  8. churchwarden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. churchwarden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. churchwarden: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Churchwarden, churchwarden: Dictionary.com
  12. Churchwarden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Churchwarden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. churchwarden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. churchwarden: Rhymezone
  16. Churchwarden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Churchwarden: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. churchwarden: FreeDictionary.org
  19. churchwarden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. churchwarden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. churchwarden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. churchwarden: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. churchwarden: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  (UK) A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.
▸ noun:  (US) A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.
▸ noun:  (British, slang) Short for churchwarden pipe. [A tobacco pipe with a long, curved stem.]

Similar:
churchwardenship, chwdn., churchman, chapelwarden, kirkwarden, warden, clerk, churchwarden's pew, waywarden, parish clerk, more...

Opposite:
parishioner, layperson, congregant

Types:
Anglican, Episcopalian, Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, more...

Phrases:
churchwarden pipe, more...

Adjectives:
senior, long, old, other, unapproachable, former, new, perpetual, later, honorary, respectable

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Similar:
churchwardenship, chwdn., churchman, chapelwarden, kirkwarden, warden, clerk, churchwarden's pew, waywarden, parish clerk, more...

Opposite:
parishioner, layperson, congregant

Types:
Anglican, Episcopalian, Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, more...

Phrases:
churchwarden pipe, more...

Adjectives:
senior, long, old, other, unapproachable, former, new, perpetual, later, honorary, respectable



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