reverend vs acolyte

acolyte vs reverend

reverend and acolyte both are nouns.

reverend is an adjective but acolyte is not an adjective.

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

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

reverend: 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 reverend 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.

reverend (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

reverend (adjective)	acolyte (adjective)
worthy of adoration or reverence

Difference between reverend and acolyte

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