Noun deacon has 2 senses
  1. deacon, Protestant deacon - a Protestant layman who assists the minister
    --1 is a kind of church officer
    --1 has particulars: deaconess
  2. deacon - a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
    --2 is a kind of
    clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth; holy order, order
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