man of the cloth

Questions about man of the cloth

What does man of the cloth mean?

man of the cloth means "a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church".

What is another word for man of the cloth?

Close synonyms include clergyman, reverend. 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 man of the cloth a common word?

man of the cloth 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.