ARCHDEACON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archdeacon mean? 

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

1. (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHDEACON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Domain category:

Anglican Church; Anglican Communion; Church of England (the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head)

Derivation:

archidiaconal (of or relating to an archdeacon or his office)

 Context examples 

I have not yet alluded to the visits of Mr. Brocklehurst; and indeed that gentleman was from home during the greater part of the first month after my arrival; perhaps prolonging his stay with his friend the archdeacon: his absence was a relief to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)