ANAGNOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anagnost mean? 

• ANAGNOST (noun)
  The noun ANAGNOST has 1 sense:

1. a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church)

  Familiarity information: ANAGNOST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAGNOST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("anagnost" 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)