clergyman
English Thesaurus
1. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | spiritual leader, |
| definition | : | a leader in religious or sacred affairs (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | acolyte, |
| definition | : | someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | anagnost, |
| definition | : | a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | archdeacon, |
| definition | : | (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | chaplain, |
| definition | : | a clergyman ministering to some institution (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | deacon, |
| definition | : | a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, |
| definition | : | the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | lector, reader, |
| definition | : | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | officiant, |
| definition | : | a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ordinand, |
| definition | : | a person being ordained (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ordinary, |
| definition | : | a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | postulator, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | priest, |
| definition | : | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | shepherd, |
| definition | : | a clergyman who watches over a group of people (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | subdeacon, |
| definition | : | a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | vicar, |
| definition | : | (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | vicar, |
| definition | : | (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | beecher, henry ward beecher, |
| definition | : | United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | donne, john donne, |
| definition | : | English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john keble, keble, |
| definition | : | English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement (1792-1866) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john wesley, wesley, |
| definition | : | English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | charles wesley, wesley, |
| definition | : | English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | roger williams, williams, |
| definition | : | English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683) (noun.person) |
| member meronym | : | clergy, |
| definition | : | in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) (noun.group) |
| antonym | : | layman, layperson, secular, |
| definition | : | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person (noun.person) |
| antonym | : | layman, layperson, secular, |
| definition | : | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person (noun.person) |
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