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/ˈal.mə.nə/ · noun
A person who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses..
the almoner of a prince or bishop
Francesca, from where she stood, could hear the Queen giving a laughing account of the Due de Domville's attachment to Mademoiselle Menneville, the prettiest of her maids of honour, all of whom were pretty. "It is a passion of the good old time, and has already lasted some four years; but Madame la Duchesse de Vantadour, his mother, will not hear of it. Never before was a lover of fifty so put out, to think that he cannot yet have his own way. Not content with his own cares, when obliged to be absent he leaves his almoner to take charge of her. It is gallantry equally antediluvian and interminable; I suppose they will be married one day, and buried the next."
Use almoner when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Almoner means A person who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses..
Common synonyms include medical social worker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the almoner of a prince or bishop
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