ecclesiastic

1. 1.

   of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)

   “ecclesiastic history”

   Synonymsecclesiastical

Other forms of ecclesiastic

plural

ecclesiastics·

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 ecclesiastic

What does ecclesiastic mean?

ecclesiastic means "a clergyman or other person in religious orders". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ecclesiastic?

ecclesiastic has 5 syllables: ec-cle-si-as-tic. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ɪˌkliziˈæstɪk/.

What is another word for ecclesiastic?

Close synonyms include cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastical. 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 ecclesiastic a common word?

ecclesiastic 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.

What rhymes with ecclesiastic?

2 words rhyme with ecclesiastic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.