English dictionary
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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 | ||
| Synonyms | clergyman, reverend | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | spiritual leader | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Member meronym | clergy | ||
| Antonyms | layman, layperson, secular | ||
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