sexton

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
    — 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.
  2. A sexton beetle.

词形变化

sextons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Sexton sextoncy sextoness sextonry sextonship Sleeping Sexton undersexton
相关词
sacrament sacredness sacristanry sacristry sacristy churchwarden

词源

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.
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