Sexton
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɛk.stən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sexton is a noun meaning A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
Meaning
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
More Meanings
- A sexton beetle.
Example Sentences
The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.
on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell
We stopped in the road and watched the sexton shovelling in the new earth. A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave. The sexton stopped shovelling and straightened his back. The peasant in the high boots took the spade from the sexton and went on filling in the grave
Word Forms
- sextons
Synonyms for sexton
Depending on context, synonyms include sacristan.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sacristan, beadle, beetle, sixteen, gravekeeper, vesturer.
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