The poor father forced himself to ask the sexton whether she had been to mass.
Source: tatoeba (2753426)
Sexton
//ˈsɛk.stən//
Synonyms for "sexton" (42 found)
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Closest matches (9)
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Related words (21)
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50 translations across 31 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- գերեզմանափոր noun (church official)
- եկեղեցու պահակ noun (church official)
- ժամկոչ noun (church official)
Belarusian
1 entries- царко́ўны вартаўні́к noun (church official)
Bulgarian
1 entries- клиса́р noun (church official)
Catalan
1 entries- sagristà noun (church official)
Czech
1 entries- kostelník noun (church official)
Dutch
1 entries- koster noun (church official)
Finnish
1 entries- suntio noun (church official)
French
2 entries- sacristain noun (church official)
- sacriste noun (church official)
Gallo
1 entries- bedaou noun (church official)
German
4 entries- Kirchendiener noun (church official)
- Kirchendienerin noun (church official)
- Küster noun (church official)
- Küsterin noun (church official)
Greek
2 entries- εκκλησάρης noun (church official)
- νεωκόρος noun (church official)
Hungarian
1 entries- sekrestyés noun (church official)
Ingrian
1 entries- ponomari noun (church official)
Irish
1 entries- cléireach noun (church official)
Italian
2 entries- sacrestano noun (church official)
- sagrestano noun (church official)
Latin
1 entries- sēcrētārius noun (church official)
Macedonian
2 entries- кли́сар noun (church official)
- при́служник noun (church official)
Malayalam
1 entries- കപ്യാർ noun (church official)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- klokker noun (church official)
- sakristan noun (church official)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- klokkar noun (church official)
Polish
1 entries- zakrystian noun (church official)
Portuguese
1 entries- sacristão noun (church official)
Romanian
3 entries- paracliser noun (church official)
- pălămar noun (church official)
- sacristan noun (church official)
Russian
3 entries- понома́рь noun (church official)
- ри́зничий noun (church official)
- церко́вный сто́рож noun (church official)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- crkvenjak noun (church official)
- sakristan noun (church official)
Slovak
1 entries- kostolník noun (church official)
Slovene
2 entries- cerkovnik noun (church official)
- mežnar noun (church official)
Spanish
1 entries- sacristán noun (church official)
Swedish
1 entries- kyrkvaktmästare noun (church official)
Turkish
1 entries- zangoç noun (church official)
Welsh
2 entries- clochydd (bellringer) noun (church official)
- torrwr beddau noun (church official)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell
Source: wiktionary
We stopped in the road and watched the sexton shovelling in the new earth. A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave. The sexton stopped shovelling and straightened his back. The peasant in the high boots took the spade from the sexton and went on filling in the grave
Source: wiktionary
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