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Order vs acolyte

acolyte vs Order

Order and acolyte both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Order Yes No No No
acolyte Yes No No No
As nouns, acolyte is a hyponym of Order; that is, acolyte is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Order:
  • Order: (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
  • acolyte: someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
Other hyponyms of Order include anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, exorcist, lector, reader, priest, subdeacon.
Order (noun) acolyte (noun)
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
Difference between Order and acolyte

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