noun
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
• Hypernyms: ↑spiritual leader
• Hyponyms:
↑acolyte, ↑anagnost, ↑archdeacon, ↑chaplain, ↑cleric, ↑churchman, ↑divine, ↑ecclesiastic, ↑curate, ↑minister of religion, ↑minister, ↑parson, ↑pastor, ↑rector, ↑deacon, ↑dominus, ↑dominie, ↑domine, ↑dominee, ↑doorkeeper, ↑ostiary, ↑ostiarius, ↑lector, ↑reader, ↑officiant, ↑ordinand, ↑ordinary, ↑postulator, ↑preacher, ↑preacher man, ↑sermonizer, ↑sermoniser, ↑priest, ↑shepherd, ↑subdeacon, ↑vicar
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Beecher, ↑Henry Ward Beecher, ↑Donne, ↑John Donne, ↑Keble, ↑John Keble, ↑King, ↑Martin Luther King, ↑Martin Luther King Jr., ↑Wesley, ↑John Wesley, ↑Charles Wesley, ↑Williams, ↑Roger Williams
• Member Holonyms: ↑clergy
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: a minister or other ecclesiastic
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a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
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man of the cloth see ↑man of God above.
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Main Entry: ↑man
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man of the cloth UK US noun [countable] [singular man of the cloth plural ˌmen of the ˈcloth] formal
a priest or minister
Thesaurus: people in authority in the christian churchhyponym
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man of the cloth,
= clergyman. (Cf. ↑clergyman)
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a clergyman
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noun, pl men of the cloth [count]
formal + old-fashioned : a man who is a priest or minister
Useful english dictionary. 2012.