Clergyman Synonyms and Antonyms

klûrjē-mən
A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cleric
  2. preacher
  3. pastor
  4. parson
  5. reverend
  6. imam
  7. man-of-the-cloth
Antonyms:
  1. layman
A person ordained for service in a Christian church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. churchman
  2. churchwoman
  3. clergywoman
  4. cleric
  5. clerical
  6. clerk
  7. divine
  8. ecclesiastic
  9. minister
  10. parson
  11. preacher
  12. reverend
  13. pulpiter
  14. sermonizer

Words Related to Clergyman

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Clergyman Sentence Examples

  • He was educated in a school at Jesmond, kept by Mr Ivison, a clergyman of the church of England.

  • One of this good clergyman's sons, Samuel Parkman, became an eminent merchant in Boston, and exhibited much skill in horticulture.

  • His father, Johann Gottfried Lessing, was a clergyman, and, a few years after his son's birth, became pastor primaries or chief pastor of Kamenz.

  • The bishop is bound to induct if he find the clergyman canonically qualified, and a refusal on his part is subject to an appeal to an ecclesiastical court either by patron or by presentee.

  • After three months' schoolmastering for Owen at Wroxeter he read theology, and especially the schoolmen, with Francis Garbet, the local clergyman.

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