CLERIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleric mean? 

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

1. a clergyman or other person in religious orders

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLERIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clergyman or other person in religious orders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

churchman; cleric; divine; ecclesiastic

Hypernyms ("cleric" 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 "cleric"):

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))