religious order

Questions about religious order

What does religious order mean?

religious order means "a subdivision of a larger religious group".

What is another word for religious order?

Close synonyms include sect, religious sect. 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 religious order a common word?

religious order 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.