Definition of commandery

• 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.