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Sexton

noun

/ˈsɛk.stən/

Word Frequency: 0.7

Definitions

1.nounA church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

2.nounA sexton beetle.

Synonyms

sacristan beadle beetle sixteen gravekeeper vesturer cemeterian steeple keeper officiant verger steeplekeeper gravedigger

Rhymes With

exton flexed in hypertext in next in next inn perplexed in pretext in sexed in

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