| NOUN | person | acolyte | someone who assists a priest / priest or minister in a liturgical service |
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| Sounds | ae'kahlay.t | |
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| Rhymes | airtight ... write: 181 rhymes with ayt... | |
| Meaning | someone who assists a priest / 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. | |
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| Narrower | altar boy | A boy serving as an acolyte |
| thurifer | An acolyte who carries a thurible | |
| Broader | Holy Order, Order | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy |
| clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth | A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | |
| Spanish | acólito, misario | |
| Catalan | acòlit | |
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