clergyman
Syllables: cler·gy·man/ˈklɜːdʒimən/US/ˈklɝd͡ʒimən/
clergyman noun: a male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
Noun
clergyman (plural clergymen)
- A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
- Holonym: clergy
- I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.1883, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 128
clergyman meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Arabic
clergyman in Urdu
- clergyman; Christian priest
- پادری pādrī, فادر fādar
clergyman in Telugu
- మతాధికారి
clergyman in Malayalam
- ക്രൈസ്തവ പുരോഹിത ഗണത്തിലെ അംഗം
clergyman in Arabic
- ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy
- قِسِّيس qissīs, كَاهِن kāhin
More languagesFewer languages
- clergyman in Indonesian
- klerus
- clergyman in Vietnamese
- mục sư
Examples of clergyman in a sentence
- Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.
- Still, the elder Laplace wanted his son to become a clergyman.
- Superstitious sailors regarded a clergyman as an unlucky shipmate, a Jonah whose presence would never be welcome.
Forms of clergyman
| plural | clergymen |
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Origin of clergyman
From clergy + -man.
Words formed from clergyman
Questions about clergyman
- What does clergyman mean?
- Clergyman means a male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
- What is clergyman in Urdu?
- Clergyman in Urdu is پادری (pādrī), فادر (fādar). See Clergyman meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is clergyman?
- Clergyman is a noun.
- How do you pronounce clergyman?
- Clergyman is pronounced /ˈklɝd͡ʒimən/ (US).
- What is the plural of clergyman?
- The plural of clergyman is clergymen.
Words near clergyman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clergyman (page history and authors); فادر (Urdu) (page history and authors); clergyman (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clergyman (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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