sextons
Meaning of sextons
plural noun
a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French segrestein, from medieval Latin sacristanus (see sacristan).
Information about sextons
- It is a name.
- The singular form of sextons is: sexton.
- Languages in which sextons is used:
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Hyphenation of sextons
sex-tons
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- sextons is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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