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Order vs subdeacon

subdeacon vs Order

Order and subdeacon both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Order Yes No No No
subdeacon Yes No No No
As nouns, subdeacon is a hyponym of Order; that is, subdeacon 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
  • subdeacon: a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Other hyponyms of Order include acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, exorcist, lector, reader, priest.
Order (noun) subdeacon (noun)
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Difference between Order and subdeacon

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