clerk

clerk

noun

Definition of CLERK

1

an official whose job is to keep records <you'll need to get a copy of your birth certificate from the office of the town clerk>

Synonyms register, registrar, scribe, secretary

Related Words archivist, bookkeeper, recorder, reporter, transcriptionist; annalist, chronicler, documenter, historian

2

a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store <the clerk suggested a different brand>

Synonyms clerk, salesclerk, salesman

Related Words salespeople; salesgirl, saleslady, saleswoman, shopgirl; pitchman, pitchwoman; floorwalker

3

a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church <the clerks in the rural parishes were for the most part sons of merchants>

Synonyms cleric, clerical, clerk, deacon, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, minister, preacher, priest, reverend

Related Words churchman, clergyman, father, Holy Joe [slang], padre; clergywoman, deaconess, priestess; abbot, archbishop, archpriest, bishop, dean, diocesan, monsignor, pope, prelate, presbyter; abbé, curate, curé, parson, pastor, rector, shepherd, vicar; chaplain, confessor, sky pilot; evangelist, missionary, missioner, missionizer, revivalist; friar, mendicant, monastic, monk, oblate, religious; high priest, high priestess

Near Antonyms lay reader, lector

Antonyms layman, layperson, secular