Beadle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
  • n. an attendant to the minister
  • n. a warrant officer
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
  • n. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
  • n. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who makes proclamation; a herald.
  • n. A crier or messenger of a court; a servitor; one who cites persons to appear and answer.
  • n. In universities, a subaltern official or servant, properly and usually termed a bedel (which see).
  • n. In England, a parish officer having various subordinate duties, such as keeping order in church, punishing petty offenders, waiting on the clergyman, attending meetings of vestry or session, etc.
  • n. The apparitor of a trades guild or company. Also spelled bedell and bedel, in senses 2 and 3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
  • n. United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    apparitor    summoner   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    servitor    constable    bluecoat    bluebottle    bedell    poker   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    needle    tweedle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sacristan    summoner    pew-opener    organist    janitor    assessor    bell-ringer    sompnour    vestry