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English noun: clergy

1. clergy (group) in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)


Broader (hypernym)priesthood


Narrower (hyponym)cardinalate, pastorate, prelacy, prelature


Member holonymclergyman, man of the cloth, reverend


Antonymslaity, temporalty









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