protestant deacon

1. 1.

   a Protestant layman who assists the minister

   Synonymsdeacon

   Broaderchurch officer

   Narrowerdeaconess

Questions about protestant deacon

What does protestant deacon mean?

protestant deacon means "a Protestant layman who assists the minister".

What is another word for protestant deacon?

Close synonyms include deacon. 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 protestant deacon a common word?

protestant deacon 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.