recessional

1. 1.

   the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service

   Synonymsrecession

   Broaderprocession
2. 2.

   a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw

   Broaderhymn

1. 1.

   of or relating to receding

Other forms of recessional

plural

recessionals·

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 recessional

What does recessional mean?

recessional means "the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recessional?

recessional has 5 syllables: re-ces-si-o-nal. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for recessional?

Close synonyms include recession. 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 recessional a common word?

recessional 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.