vestryman
noun
vestryman is a noun meaning “A member of a parochial vestry, especially one who is a man” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-S-T-R-Y-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vestryman is vestrymen.
What does vestryman mean?
noun
- 1
A member of a parochial vestry, especially one who is a man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vestryman
- vestrymen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vestryman?
Vestryman appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vestryman come from?
From vestry + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).