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noun
A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clergyperson, cleric
noun
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: reverend, man of the cloth
Antonyms: layman
Broader terms: spiritual leader
Narrower terms: acolyte, anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic, curate, minister of religion, minister, parson, pastor, rector, deacon, dominus, dominie, domine, dominee, doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius, lector, reader, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, postulator, preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser, priest, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Donne, John Donne, Keble, John Keble, King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Wesley, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Williams, Roger Williams
History
Etymology tree English clergy Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English clergyman From clergy + -man.
Across languages
88 source translations are retained for this English entry.
