deacon

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English

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deacon

Etymology

Inherited from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: dea‧con
enPR: dē'k(ə)n, IPA^(key): /ˈdiːkən/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -iːkən

Noun

deacon (plural deacons)

(Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
(Christianity) By extension, a modern day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
(Orthodoxy, Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
(Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
(Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
(Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
(Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
(US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
(Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.

Hypernyms

(various religious senses): cleric

Hyponyms

(Catholic): permanent deacon, transitional deacon

Coordinate terms

deaconess
(various religious senses): abbé, canon

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

designated minister of charity in the early Church

Afrikaans: diaken
Armenian:
Old Armenian: սարկաւագ (sarkawag)
Belarusian: дыя́кан m (dyjákan)
Bulgarian: дя́кон (bg) m (djákon)
Catalan: diaca (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏙᎯᎯ (ayadohihi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 執事牧師 / 执事牧师 (zhíshì mùshī), 執事 / 执事 (zh) (zhíshì)
Danish: diakon c
Dutch: diaken (nl) m
Esperanto: diakono
Finnish: diakoni (fi)
French: diacre (fr) m
German: Diakon (de) m
Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 m (diakaunus)
Greek: διάκονος (el) m (diákonos)
Ancient: διάκονος m (diákonos)
Indonesian: diakon (id), diaken (id)
Italian: diacono (it) m
Japanese: 執事 (ja) (しつじ, shitsuji)
Korean: 부제 (ko) (buje) (Catholic), 보제 (boje) (Orthodox)
Latin: diāconus m
Macedonian: ѓа́кон m (ǵákon)
Maltese: djaknu m, djakunu m
Maori: rīkona
Norman: diacre m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diakon (no) m

Nynorsk: diakon m
Polish: diakon (pl) m
Portuguese: diácono (pt) m
Romanian: diacon (ro) m
Russian: дья́кон (ru) m (dʹjákon), диа́кон (ru) m (diákon)
Spanish: diácono (es) m
Swedish: diakon (sv) c
Turkish: diyakoz (tr)
Ukrainian: дия́кон m (dyjákon)
Vietnamese: phó tế (vi) (Catholic), chấp sự (vi) (Protestant)

clergyman ranked directly below a priest

Arabic: شَمَّاس m (šammās)
Armenian: սարկավագ (hy) (sarkavag)
Old Armenian: սարկաւագ (sarkawag)
Bulgarian: дя́кон (bg) m (djákon)
Catalan: diaca (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 執事 / 执事 (zh) (zhíshì), 助祭 (zhùjì), 輔祭 / 辅祭 (fǔjì)
Czech: jáhen (cs) m, diákon (cs) m
Danish: diakon c
Dutch: diaken (nl) m
Esperanto: diakono
Finnish: diakoni (fi)
French: diacre (fr) m
German: Diakon (de) m
Indonesian: diakon (id), diaken (id)
Irish: deagánach m
Italian: diacono (it) m
Japanese: 輔祭 (ほさい, hosai) (Orthodox), 助祭 (ja) (じょさい, josai) (Catholic), 執事 (ja) (しつじ, shitsuji) (Anglican)
Korean: 부제 (ko) (buje) (Catholic), 보제 (boje) (Orthodox)
Latin: diāconus m
Macedonian: ѓа́кон m (ǵákon)
Maltese: djaknu m, djakunu m
Maori: rīkona
Norman: diacre m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diakon (no) m

Nynorsk: diakon m
Old Slovak: jáhen m
Persian: شماس (fa) (šammâs)
Portuguese: diácono (pt) m
Romanian: diacon (ro) m
Russian: дья́кон (ru) m (dʹjákon), диа́кон (ru) m (diákon)
Slovak: diakon m
Spanish: diácono (es) m
Swahili: shemasi
Swedish: diakon (sv) c
Tagalog: diyakono
Vietnamese: phó tế (vi) (Catholic), chấp sự (vi) (Protestant), trợ tế (rare), thầy sáu (vi) (Catholic, dated)

lay leader of a Protestant congregation

Catalan: diaca (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 執事 / 执事 (zap¹ si⁶)

Mandarin: 執事 / 执事 (zh) (zhíshì)
Dutch: diaken (nl) m
Finnish: diakoni (fi)
French: diacre (fr) m, diaconesse (fr) f
German: Diakon (de) m, Diakonin (de) f
Icelandic: djákni (is) m
Indonesian: diaken (id)
Italian: diacono (it) m
Japanese: 執事 (ja) (しつじ, shitsuji)
Korean: 집사 (ko) (jipsa)
Maori: rīkona
Norman: diacre m
Plautdietsch: Eltesta m
Portuguese: diácono (pt) m
Romanian: diacon (ro) m

junior Lodge officer

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} diakono

Verb

deacon (third-person singular simple present deacons, present participle deaconing, simple past and past participle deaconed)

(Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
(US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
(US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
  The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.
- 1902, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham‎^[1]:
  It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed — after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins that was on top.
(US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

Anagrams

Canedo, Cedano, acnode, canoed