clergyman vs acolyte

acolyte vs clergyman

clergyman and acolyte both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
clergyman	Yes	No	No	No
acolyte	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acolyte is a hyponym of clergyman; that is, acolyte is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than clergyman:

clergyman: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
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 clergyman include anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector, deacon, domine, dominee, dominie, dominus, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, lector, reader, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, postulator, preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer, priest, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, vicar.

clergyman (noun)	acolyte (noun)
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church	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 clergyman and acolyte

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