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sexton
1[sek-stuhn]
noun
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.
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.
Sexton
2[sek-stuhn]
noun
Anne (Harvey), 1928–74, U.S. poet.
sexton
/ ˈ²õÉ›°ì²õ³ÙÉ™²Ô /
noun
a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc
another name for the burying beetle
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- sextonship noun
- undersexton noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of sexton1
Example Sentences
He then moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a maintenance worker or sexton at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.
The gunmen sprayed bullets at a priest, nuns, and sextons, wounding five of them, said the two witnesses, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals.
The pair grew up in Seminary, a historically Black community near the Virginia Theological Seminary, where their grandfather worked as a sexton.
Junior Roop, the sexton of a cemetery near the spill site, said people could smell the oil in town.
When she later fell pregnant, Van Gogh was accused by the village sexton of being responsible.
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