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anagnost

anagnost noun: someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service.

Noun

anagnost (plural anagnosts)

  1. (historical) Someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service.
    • Coming to the landing, I saw two cataphracts, an anagnost reading prayers, Master Gurloes, and a young woman.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 111

Forms of anagnost

pluralanagnosts

Origin of anagnost

From Latin anagnōstes (“slave trained to read aloud”), from Koine Greek ἀναγνώστης (anagnṓstēs, “reader, slave trained to read”), after Ancient Greek ἀναγιγνώσκειν (anagignṓskein, “to read”).

Questions about anagnost

What does anagnost mean?
Anagnost means someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service.
What part of speech is anagnost?
Anagnost is a noun.
What is the plural of anagnost?
The plural of anagnost is anagnosts.

Words near anagnost in the dictionary

  1. anagnorises
  2. anagnorisis
  3. anagnoristic
  4. anagnosasthenia
  5. anagnosasthenias
  6. anagnost
  7. Anagnostopoulos
  8. anagnosts
  9. anagoge
  10. anagoges
  11. anagogic

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