sexton

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Английский Язык - Турецкий язык
{i} mezarcı
{i} kilise hademesi
Necrophorus
{i} zangoç
küçük ölü hayvanları gömen bir cins böcek

Связанные Термины

sexton beetle
{i} mezarcı böcek
sexton beetle
(isim) mezarcı böcek
Английский Язык - Английский Язык
A church official who looks after a church and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer
{n} an under officer of a church
A person -- either a church officer or employee -- who takes care of the church property, sometimes the person responsible for ringing the bells, and may also dig graves In some areas this term has come to describe the person or organization responsible for the care of a cemetery The sexton may have the cemetery records
someone whose job is to take care of a church building and the area around it and do other related things, such as ring bells (secrestain, from sacristanus; SACRISTAN)
United States poet (1928-1974)
an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
an older English title for the person in charge of the church building [or a special portion of it] and grounds; in America the Sexton is also commonly head of maintenance and custodial services and may perform additional duties such as ringing the church bell
Assistant to the Parish Clerk carrying out the more menial duties such as grave digging and bell ringing as well as other duties around the church and churchyard This position was often appointed by the church wardens or incumbent at carried a salary although this could only be a fixed sum for each burial Often the same person occupied the position as Verger
an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects United States poet (1928-1974)
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc
{i} caretaker of a church
belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc

Связанные Термины

sexton beetle
{i} (Zoology) burying beetle, gravedigger, any type of black or black and orange beetles that bury dead mice or the carcasses of small animals
Anne Sexton
orig. Anne Gray Harvey born Nov. 9, 1928, Newton, Mass., U.S. died Oct. 4, 1974, Weston, Mass. U.S. poet. She worked as a model, librarian, and teacher. Her first book of poetry, To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), examines her mental breakdowns and subsequent recoveries with confessional intensity. She continued probing her personal life in All My Pretty Ones (1962) and Live or Die (1966, Pulitzer Prize). Her other works include the nonfiction collection No Evil Star (1985). She died a suicide. Several volumes of poetry were published posthumously
sextons
plural of sexton
sexton

    Расстановка переносов

    sex·ton

    Турецкое произношение

    sekstın

    Синонимы

    sacristan

    Произношение

    /ˈsekstən/ /ˈsɛkstən/

    Этимология

    [ 'seks-t&n ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English secresteyn, sexteyn, from Middle French secrestain, from Medieval Latin sacristanus; more at SACRISTAN.
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