the cloth (noun) clergy: ministry of church
Detalii: clergy first meant 'learning, scholarship' and clerk had the original meaning 'man ordained to the Christian ministry'
Sinonime: canonicate, canonry, cardinalate, churchpersons, clerics, conclave, deaconry, diaconate, ecclesiastics, first estate, holy order, pastorate, prelacy, priesthood, rabbinate, the cloth, the desk, the pulpit