Deacon

Noun

 * 1)  A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
 * 2)  A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
 * 3)  A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
 * 4)  A junior Lodge officer.
 * 5)  The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
 * 6) 🇺🇸 A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).

Derived terms

 * archdeacon
 * deaconal
 * deaconate
 * deaconess
 * deaconize
 * deaconry
 * deacon-seat
 * subdeacon

Verb

 * 1)  For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 To kill a calf shortly after birth.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.

Adjectives for Deacon
dutiful; long-faced; solemn; simonious; funereal-looking; sin-denouncing.

Adverbs for Deacon
appoint—; elect—; ordain—; unfrock—; —administers; —admonishes; —advises; —assists; —attends; —awes; —baptizes; —christens; —collects; —disperses; —distributes; —performs; —prays; —preaches; —provides; —reproves; —serves; —supervises ; —visits.

Thesaurus
Aaronic priesthood, Bible clerk, Bible reader, Melchizedek priesthood, Seventy, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, anagnost, apostle, beadle, bedral, bishop, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deaconess, diaconus, doorkeeper, elder, elderman, exorcist, exorcista, high priest, holy orders, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, parish clerk, patriarch, precentor, presbyter, priest, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sexton, shames, sidesman, subdeacon, subdiaconus, succentor, suisse, teacher, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress

Etymology
From diacon:, from ecclesiastical  diaconus:, from  διάκονος:.

Noun

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 * Italian:
 * Latin: diaconus
 * Maltese: djaknu
 * Portuguese: diácono


 * Armenian: սարկավագ (sarkavag)
 * Bulgarian: дякон
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 * Irish: déagánach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * 輔祭; in Orthodox Church
 * 助祭; in Catholic Church
 * ; in Anglicanism


 * Korean: 부제 (buje)
 * Latin: diaconus
 * Macedonian: ѓакон
 * Maltese: djaknu
 * Russian: дьякон, диакон
 * Spanish: diácono


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 * Korean: 집사 (jipsa)

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