English noun: man of the cloth |
1. | man of the cloth (person) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church |
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| Synonyms | clergyman, reverend |
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| Broader (hypernym) | spiritual leader |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acolyte, anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, churchman, cleric, curate, deacon, divine, domine, dominee, dominie, dominus, doorkeeper, ecclesiastic, lector, minister, minister of religion, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, ostiarius, ostiary, parson, pastor, postulator, preacher, preacher man, priest, reader, rector, sermoniser, sermonizer, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, vicar |
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| Instance hyponym | Beecher, Charles Wesley, Donne, Henry Ward Beecher, John Donne, John Keble, John Wesley, Keble, King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Roger Williams, Wesley, Wesley, Williams |
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| Member meronym | clergy |
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| Antonyms | layman, layperson, secular |
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