Word Meaning

commandery definition and meaning

n. The office or rank of a commander.
n. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
n. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
n. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.