Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deacon

2 senses of deacon

Sense 1
deacon, Protestant deacon -- (a Protestant layman who assists the minister)
       => church officer -- (a church official)

Sense 2
deacon -- (a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders)
       => clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth -- (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
       => Holy Order, Order -- ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order")