SUBDEACON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subdeacon mean? 

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

1. a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBDEACON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("subdeacon" 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)