deacon
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a Protestant layman who assists the minister
Types & categories
- church officer hypernym
- deaconess hyponym
Sense 2 noun
a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
Types & categories
- clergyman hypernym
- Holy Order hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | church officer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | deaconess |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clergyman |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | Holy Order |