clergyman vs doorkeeper

doorkeeper vs clergyman

clergyman and doorkeeper both are nouns.

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

As nouns, doorkeeper is a hyponym of clergyman; that is, doorkeeper 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
doorkeeper: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Other hyponyms of clergyman include acolyte, anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector, deacon, domine, dominee, dominie, dominus, ostiarius, ostiary, lector, reader, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, postulator, preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer, priest, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, vicar.

clergyman (noun)	doorkeeper (noun)
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church	someone who guards an entrance
	an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
	the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Difference between clergyman and doorkeeper

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