churchman

Other forms of churchman

plural

churchmans·

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 churchman

What does churchman mean?

churchman means "a clergyman or other person in religious orders".

How many syllables are in churchman?

churchman has 2 syllables: church-man. The stress falls on "church". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɝtʃmən/.

What is another word for churchman?

Close synonyms include cleric, divine, ecclesiastic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is churchman a common word?

churchman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.