deacon

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
 * 4)  Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
 * 5)  Anglicanism: An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
 * 6)  Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
 * 7)  A junior lodge officer.
 * 8)  The lowest office in the, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
 * 9)  A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
 * 10)  The chairman of an incorporated company.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: diaken
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: սարկաւագ
 * Belarusian: дыя́кан
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏙᎯᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 執事牧師,
 * Danish: diakon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: diakono
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διάκονος
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 보제
 * Latin: diāconus
 * Macedonian: ѓа́кон
 * Maltese: djaknu, djakunu
 * Maori: rīkona
 * Norman: diacre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: diakon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дия́кон
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic: شَمَّاس
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: սարկաւագ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 助祭, 輔祭
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: diakon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: diakono
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: deagánach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 輔祭, ,
 * Korean:, 보제
 * Latin: diāconus
 * Macedonian: ѓа́кон
 * Maltese: djaknu, djakunu
 * Maori: rīkona
 * Norman: diacre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: diakon
 * Old Slovak: jáhen
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: diakon
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: shemasi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: diyakono
 * Vietnamese:,  , trợ tế ,


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 執事
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: rīkona
 * Norman: diacre
 * Plautdietsch: Eltesta
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:


 * Esperanto:

Verb

 * 1)  For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
 * 2)  To kill a calf shortly after birth.
 * 3)  To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
 * 4)  To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
 * 1)  To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
 * 1)  To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.