deacon

IPA: dˈikʌn

(Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
(Christianity) By extension, a modern day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
(Orthodoxy, Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
(Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
(Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
(Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
(Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
(US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
(Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
A surname originating as an occupation.
(rare) A male given name from English.

(Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
(US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
(US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
(US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

Examples of "deacon" in Sentences

Their work is, _to serve tables_, (hence the name deacon seems derived,)
A deacon is a cleric ranking just below a priest and two steps below a Lama.
But it is not clear that Hegesippus here uses the word deacon in its strictly technical sense.
Laurentius, a Christian deacon, is said to have been martyred by the Romans in 258 AD on an iron outdoor stove.
The young deacon is question has a donor who will provide funds for the purchase -- price dependent it goes without saying.
Goths and Lombards, as stated by Paul Warnefrid, surnamed the deacon, is attacked by Cluverius, (Germania, Antiq.l. iii. c.
As he returns from the sacristy, the deacon is preceded by two acolytes, and accompanied by two others carrying lighted candles.
While the word deacon is Greek for minister, and to minister is to serve, the word is otherwise translated as "deacon" or "minister" when it refers to men.
Among the Lutherans, however, in Germany, the word deacon is generally applied to assistant, though fully ordained, ministers who aid the minister in charge of a particular cure or parish.
A third term, diakonos (from which comes our word deacon), is the one usually employed in relation to the ministry of the gospel: its application is twofold, -- in a general sense to indicate ministers of any order, whether superior or inferior, and in a special sense to indicate an order of inferiors ministers.