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Showing words for SEXTON using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Sexton

sexton

5 Letter Words for Sexton

exons, nexts, notes, noxes, onset, seton, sexto, steno, stone, tenso, tones

4 Letter Words for Sexton

ento, eons, esox, eton, exon, nest, nets, next, noes, noex, nose, note, nots, ones, onst, oxen, oxes, sent, sext, snot, sone, sten, tens, toes, tone, tons, tose

3 Letter Words for Sexton

ens, eon, eos, est, ext, neo, net, nos, not, nox, oes, one, ons, ont, ose, sen, set, sex, son, sot, ten, tes, tex, toe, ton, tos, tox

Definitions for Sexton

[1] an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
[2] an official who maintains a synagogue and its religious articles, chants the designated portion of the Torah on prescribed days, and assists the cantor in conducting services on festivals.
[3] Anne (Harvey), 1928–74, U.S. poet.
[4] a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc
[5] another name for the burying beetle

Words nearby Sexton

sextile, sextillion, sexting, sexto, sextodecimo, sexton, sextuple, sextuplet, sextuplex, sextuplicate, sexual

Origin of Sexton

1275–1325; Middle English sexteyn, sekesteyn, syncopated variant of segerstane, secristeyn < Anglo-French segerstaine sacristan

Words that may be confused with Sexton

sextant, sextet, sexton

Other words from Sexton

sex·ton·ship , noun
un·der·sex·ton , noun

Word origin for Sexton

C14: from Old French secrestein, from Medieval Latin sacristānus sacristan