Definition of "chancellery" [chan•cel•ler•y]

• The rank or position of a chancellor. (noun)
• The office or department of a chancellor. (noun)
• The building in which such an office or department is located. (noun)
• The official place of business of an embassy or consulate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'chancellery' which has an immense big writing table, another table, three chairs, bells and excellent light and telephone."
• "Hitler also worked with his favorite architect, Albert Speer, on a complete redesign of Berlin that included an immense domed “Great Hall” connected by a three-mile-long avenue to the chancellery."
• "Among the exceptions is an elegant dark wooden chest of drawers from Hitler's chancellery, filigreed with hundreds of swastika forms, which has been hung at a diagonal angle on a corner wall, and is further protected from possible Hitler admirers by a thin gauze panel."