ACOLYTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("acolyte" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acolyte"):

altar boy (a boy serving as an acolyte)

thurifer (an acolyte who carries a thurible)

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