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cleric

/ˈklɛɹɪk/

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Australia/ˈkleɹɪk/

cleric noun: a member of a clergy.

Noun

cleric (plural clerics)

  1. A member of a clergy.
    • Holonyms: clergy; see also Thesaurus:clergy
  2. (roleplaying games) A spellcaster class that receives their spells (especially healing) from their deity.

Adjective

cleric (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Of or pertaining to the clergy.

cleric meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and Vietnamese

cleric in Tamil

மதகுரு, போதகர், உபதேசி

cleric in Urdu

گرجے والا, محرر, منشی

cleric in Arabic

clergy member
قِسِّيس qissīs, كَاهِن kāhin

cleric in Vietnamese

clergy member
mục sư

Examples of cleric in a sentence

  • The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.
  • In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.
  • In the incendiary speech delivered by his clerics on Friday, Mr.

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Forms of cleric

pluralclerics

Plural of cleric: clerics

Origin of cleric

Borrowed from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós), from κλῆρος (klêros, “a casting lots, drawing lots”). Many officers at Athens obtained their offices by lot, as opposed to election (Liddell and Scott). Doublet of clerk.

Words formed from cleric

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Questions about cleric

What does cleric mean?
Cleric means a member of a clergy.
What is cleric in Tamil?
Cleric in Tamil is மதகுரு, போதகர், உபதேசி. See Cleric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cleric?
Cleric can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cleric?
Cleric is pronounced /ˈklɛɹɪk/ (UK).
What is the plural of cleric?
The plural of cleric is clerics.

Words near cleric in the dictionary

  1. clergypeople
  2. clergyperson
  3. clergypersons
  4. clergywoman
  5. clergywomen
  6. cleric
  7. clerical
  8. clerical collar
  9. clerical collars
  10. clerical error
  11. clerical errors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleric (page history and authors); cleric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cleric (Urdu 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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