acolyte
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- clergyman hypernym
- Holy Order hypernym
- altar boy hyponym
- thurifer hyponym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | clergyman |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | Holy Order |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | altar boy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | thurifer |