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sextons

sextons is the plural of sexton.

Meaning of sexton

Noun

sexton (plural sextons)

  1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
    • The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 312
    Synonyms:
    sacristan
  2. A sexton beetle.

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Questions about sextons

What is sextons the plural of?
Sextons is the plural of sexton.

Words near sextons in the dictionary

  1. sextoness
  2. sextonesses
  3. Sextonian
  4. sextonries
  5. sextonry
  6. sextons
  7. sextonship
  8. sextonships
  9. Sextonville
  10. sextopia
  11. sextopias

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