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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 elite
Familiarity information: CLERISY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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