archdeacon

1. 1.

   (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop

   Broaderclergyman

   Anglican Church

Other forms of archdeacon

plural

archdeacons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about archdeacon

What does archdeacon mean?

archdeacon means "(Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop".

How many syllables are in archdeacon?

archdeacon has 4 syllables and divides as arch-de-a-con under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.