English noun: acolyte | |||
1. | acolyte (person) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | clergyman, Holy Order, man of the cloth, Order, reverend | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | altar boy, thurifer | ||