clergé

Definitions of clergé
  1. noun
    the body of ordained religious practitioners
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    types:
    pasteurs
    pastors collectively
    prélature
    prelates collectively
    cardinaux
    cardinals collectively
    type of:
    profession
    the body of people in a learned occupation
  2. noun
    the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain
  3. noun
    in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
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    types:
    pasteurs
    pastors collectively
    prélature
    prelates collectively
    cardinaux
    cardinals collectively
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