reader vs clergyman

clergyman vs reader

reader and clergyman both are nouns.

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

As nouns, clergyman is a hypernym of reader; that is, clergyman is a word with a broader meaning than reader:

reader: someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
clergyman: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

Other hypernyms of reader include man of the cloth, reverend, Holy Order, Order.

reader (noun)	clergyman (noun)
one of a series of texts for students learning to read	a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
a person who enjoys reading
a public lecturer at certain universities
someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
a person who can read; a literate person
someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

Difference between reader and clergyman

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