Word.ws English Dictionary

ordinands

ordinands is the plural of ordinand.

Meaning of ordinand

Noun

ordinand (plural ordinands)

  1. A candidate for ordination.
    • I didn’t go to a seminary with a lovely chapel. I didn’t spend all my time as an ordinand swanning around in vestments.2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net, archived from the original on 06 May 2016

Questions about ordinands

What is ordinands the plural of?
Ordinands is the plural of ordinand.

Words near ordinands in the dictionary

  1. ordinally
  2. ordinals
  3. ordinance
  4. ordinances
  5. ordinand
  6. ordinands
  7. ordinant
  8. ordinants
  9. ordinariate
  10. ordinariates
  11. ordinarie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ordinands (page history and authors); ordinand (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ordinands.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ordinands. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.