Religious order

Synonyms for "religious order" (39 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (8)

affiliation body branch church

Adjective(4 words)

asceticchurch orderclerical cloistered

Strong matches (12)

communion community denomination division faction fellowship group

Adjective(2 words)

ecclesiastical monastic

Noun(3 words)

franciscanitalian ordinejesuits

Related words (19)

Adjective(6 words)

monastic groupmonastic ordermonastic societyreligious communityreligious fraternityreligious group

offshoot order organization party persuasion schism school segment society variety version

Noun(2 words)

religious sectsect

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

descriptor faith institution modifier organizationorganized religionreligion

More specific

10 entries

Benedictine orderDominican orderFranciscan orderJesuit orderclericalclerical lifeconventualconventual lifemonasticmonastic life

Collocations

11 entries

Benedictine orderJesuit ordermonastic communitymonastic lifemonastic rulereligious order archivesreligious order memberreligious order robesreligious order rulereligious order schoolreligious vows

Inflections

1 entries

religious orders

Derivations

6 entries

monastic monasticismreligious orderlinessreligious ordersreligious-order religiously

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