CHURCHMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does churchman mean? 

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

1. a clergyman or other person in religious orders

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clergyman or other person in religious orders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

churchman; cleric; divine; ecclesiastic

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

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

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

ordainer (a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders)

pardoner (a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences)

pluralist (a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time)

Instance hyponyms:

a Kempis; Thomas a Kempis (German ecclesiastic (1380-1471))

Bruno; Saint Bruno; St. Bruno ((Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101))

 Context examples 

Thou vile thief! it is you, and such as you, who bring an evil name upon the many churchmen who lead a pure and a holy life.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From his spats to his gold-rimmed spectacles he was a Conservative, a churchman, a good citizen, orthodox and conventional to the last degree.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)