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CLERISY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clerisy mean? 

CLERISY (noun)
  The noun CLERISY has 1 sense:

1. an educated and intellectual eliteplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CLERISY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An educated and intellectual elite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

clerisy; intelligentsia

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

elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

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

culturati (people interested in culture and cultural activities)

literati (the literary intelligentsia)


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