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bedels

bedels is the plural of bedel.

Meaning of bedel

Noun

bedel (plural bedels)

  1. (historical) An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
    • Oxford today has four bedels, representing Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Arts.
    Synonyms:
    poker

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Proper noun capitalized: Bedels

Bedels

  1. (plural) plural of Bedel

Questions about bedels

What is bedels the plural of?
Bedels is the plural of bedel.
What part of speech is bedels?
Bedels is a proper noun.

Words near bedels in the dictionary

  1. bedelliid
  2. bedelliids
  3. bedells
  4. bedelries
  5. bedelry
  6. bedels
  7. bedelship
  8. bedelships
  9. bedeman
  10. bedemen
  11. bedemon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedels (page history and authors); Bedels (page history and authors); bedel (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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