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beadles

beadles is the plural of beadle.

Meaning of beadle

Noun

beadle (plural beadles)

  1. A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
    • Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
      The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:
      Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
      Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.1789, William Blake, “Holy Thursday”, in Songs of Innocence
  2. (Scotland) An attendant to the minister.
  3. A warrant officer.

See all 4 meanings of beadle

Proper noun capitalized: Beadles

Beadles (plural Beadleses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of beadles

pluralBeadleses

Origin of beadles

Patronymic from Beadle.

Questions about beadles

What does beadles mean?
Beadles means a surname.
What is beadles the plural of?
Beadles is the plural of beadle.
What part of speech is beadles?
Beadles is a proper noun.

Words near beadles in the dictionary

  1. beadledoms
  2. beadlehood
  3. beadleism
  4. beadleries
  5. beadlery
  6. beadles
  7. Beadleses
  8. beadleship
  9. beadless
  10. beadlet
  11. beadlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beadles (page history and authors); Beadles (page history and authors); beadle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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