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say it: MIN-uh-stree
ministry is a noun meaning "religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
a government department under the direction of a minister of state
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ministry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.