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Priesthood is the position, role, or duty of being a priest — not a physical hood you wear. People say someone 'entered the priesthood' meaning they became a priest, or talk about 'the priesthood' as a group, meaning priests as a whole.
神職、司祭身分;(集合詞)神職人員
組成priest + -hood (a suffix meaning 'the state or condition of being', as in childhood)
同家族的字
- childhoodshares the '-hood' ending, meaning 'the state of being'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
priesthoodnoun/ˈpɹiːstˌhʊd/
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The role or office of a priest.
- Meronym: priestcraft
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Priests as a group.
- Holonym: clergy
- Near-synonym: clergy
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Authority to act in the name of God or the divine in general.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。