votary
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
monasteries of votaries
Types & categories
- religious hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult
a votary of Aphrodite
Types & categories
- non-Christian priest hypernym
- vestal virgin hyponym
- bacchant hyponym
- bacchante hyponym
Sense 3 noun
a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
the cultured votary of science
Types & categories
- disciple hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | religious |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | non-Christian priest |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | vestal virgin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bacchant |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bacchante |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | disciple |