lords spiritual

1. 1.

   the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain

   Synonymsfirst estate

   Broaderestate of the realm

   United Kingdom · France

Questions about lords spiritual

What does lords spiritual mean?

lords spiritual means "the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain".

What is another word for lords spiritual?

Close synonyms include first estate. 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 lords spiritual a common word?

lords spiritual 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.