The clergyman has married three couples this week.
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Clergyman
//ˈklɝd͡ʒimən//
Synonyms for "clergyman" (64 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (32)
Related word relations
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5 entriesAntonyms
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
5 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
88 translations across 42 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- klerik noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κληρικός noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Arabic
2 entries- قِسِّيس noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- كَاهِن noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Belarusian
4 entries- свята́р noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свяшчэ́ннік noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свяшчэннаслужы́цель noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- сьвята́р noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Bulgarian
3 entries- духо́вник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свеще́ник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свещенослужи́тел noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Catalan
1 entries- clergue noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 牧師 /牧师 noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Church Slavic
1 entries- свѧщеникъ noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Czech
1 entries- duchovní noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Dutch
1 entries- geestelijke noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Esperanto
3 entries- pastriĉo noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- pastro noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- virpastro noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Finnish
1 entries- pappi noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
French
2 entries- clerc noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- prêtre noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Galician
1 entries- crego noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
German
4 entries- Geistlicher noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- Kleriker noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- Pastor noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- Pfarrer noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Greek
1 entries- κληρικός noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Hungarian
2 entries- lelkész noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- pap noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Indonesian
1 entries- klerus noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Irish
1 entries- eaglaiseach noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Italian
4 entries- chierico noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- ecclesiastico noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- prete noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- sacerdote noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Japanese
2 entries- 牧師 noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- 聖職者 noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Kazakh
1 entries- дін қызметшісі noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Korean
1 entries- 성직자 noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Latin
2 entries- clericus noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- sacerdos noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- faraŕ noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Macedonian
2 entries- духовник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свештеник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Navajo
1 entries- ééʼ neishoodii noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Old East Slavic
2 entries- свѧщеникъ noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свѧщеньникъ noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Polish
2 entries- duchowny noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- kleryk noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Portuguese
1 entries- clérigo noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Romagnol
2 entries- prid noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- prit noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Romanian
1 entries- cleric noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Russian
3 entries- кли́рик noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свяще́нник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- священнослужи́тель noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- clèireach noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- duhòvnīk noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- svèćenīk noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- svèštenīk noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- духо̀внӣк noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Slovak
1 entries- duchovný noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Slovene
1 entries- duhovnik noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Spanish
2 entries- celebrero noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- clérigo noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Ukrainian
4 entries- духівни́к noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- клі́рик noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- свяще́нник noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- священнослужи́тель noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mục sư noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Volapük
4 entries- hikultan noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- hipastan noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- hipädan noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
- jikultan noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Welsh
1 entries- llenydd noun (ordained (male) Christian minister, male member of the clergy)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
At first they rejected the proposal, but a clergyman urged them to accept.
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Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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Are you really a clergyman?
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