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COADJUTOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coadjutor mean?
• COADJUTOR (noun)
The noun COADJUTOR has 1 sense:
1. an assistant to a bishop
Familiarity information: COADJUTOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An assistant to a bishop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("coadjutor" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Context examples
With me, then, it seems, you cannot go: but if you are sincere in your offer, I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To do so, you must have a coadjutor: not a brother—that is a loose tie—but a husband.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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