Usually means: Council of church elders, governance.
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  1. presbytery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. presbytery: Merriam-Webster
  3. presbytery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. presbytery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. presbytery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. presbytery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Presbytery, presbytery: Wordnik
  8. presbytery: Wiktionary
  9. presbytery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. presbytery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. presbytery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Presbytery, presbytery: Dictionary.com
  13. Presbytery (architecture), Presbytery (church polity), Presbytery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Presbytery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. presbytery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. presbytery: Rhymezone
  17. presbytery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. presbytery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. presbytery: FreeDictionary.org
  20. presbytery: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. presbytery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. presbytery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PRESBYTERY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Presbytery (sacred architecture), presbytery: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Presbytery: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See presbyteries as well.)

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noun:  The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
noun:  A body of elders in the early Christian church.
noun:  A chancel; a section of the church reserved for the clergy.
noun:  Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
noun:  The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.

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