deacons

Meaning of deacons

noun
  1. (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
  2. (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
  3. Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
  4. Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
  5. Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
  6. A junior lodge officer.
  7. The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
  8. (animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
  9. The chairman of an incorporated company.

Information about deacons

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of deacons is: deacon.
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Hyphenation of deacons

dea-cons

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • deacons is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of deacons

acnodes

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