clerisy

Meaning of clerisy

noun
  1. learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class.
    the clerisy are those who read for pleasure
    he makes Coleridge's ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative

early 19th century: apparently influenced by German Klerisei, based on Greek klēros ‘heritage’ (see cleric).

Information about clerisy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of clerisy is: clerisies.
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Hyphenation of clerisy

clerisy

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • clerisy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

clerisy synonyms

Meaning intelligentsia:

intelligentsia

Words that rhyme with clerisy

acrisy, archhypocrisy, hyperhypocrisy, hypocrisy, grisy, verdigrisy, Chrisy, bronchopleurisy, pleurisy, plurisy

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