MINISTRY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MINISTRY?

Need another word that means the same as “ministry”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “ministry” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Ministry” are: government department, department, bureau, agency, office, holy orders, the priesthood, the cloth, the church, teaching, preaching, evangelism, period of office, term, term of office, administration, incumbency

Ministry as a Noun

Definitions of "Ministry" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “ministry” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• (in certain countries) a period of government under one prime minister.
• Building where the business of a government department is transacted.
• The work of a minister of religion.
• A government department under the direction of a minister of state.
• The period of tenure of a minister of religion.
• Religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian.
• The action of ministering to someone.
• A government department under the direction of a minister.
• Building where the business of a government ministry is transacted.
• The spiritual work or service of a Christian or a group of Christians, especially evangelism.
• (in certain countries) a government department headed by a minister.
• The work or vocation of a minister of religion.

Synonyms of "Ministry" as a noun (17 Words)

administration	The people responsible for running a business, organization, etc. The oral administration of the antibiotic.
agency	The state of being in action or exerting power. The movies could be an agency moulding the values of the public.
bureau	A writing desk with drawers and typically an angled top opening downwards to form a writing surface. A news bureau.
department	A specialized division of a large organization. Baking is not my department.
evangelism	The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness. I arrived in a state of high evangelism.
government department	The study of government of states and other political units.
holy orders	A sacred place of pilgrimage.
incumbency	A duty that is incumbent upon you. During his incumbency he established an epidemic warning system.
office	Holding an office means being in power. He rented an office in the new building.
period of office	A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
preaching	The giving of moral advice in a pompously self-righteous way. Your preaching is wasted on him.
teaching	The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded.
term	A statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome. The terms of the treaty were generous.
term of office	The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent.
the church	A service conducted in a house of worship.
the cloth	Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
the priesthood	The body of ordained religious practitioners.

Usage Examples of "Ministry" as a noun

• Gladstone's first ministry was outstanding.
• The Ministry of Defence.
• The soldiers were no less in need of his ministry.
• A ministry of Christian healing.
• A tablet in the church commemorates his ministry there.
• He is training for the ministry.
• He is studying for the ministry.

Associations of "Ministry" (30 Words)

apostle	An important early Christian teacher or pioneering missionary. An apostle of revolution.
believing	The cognitive process that leads to convictions. Seeing is believing.
bishop	A chess piece typically with its top shaped like a mitre that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands Each player starts the game with two bishops one moving on white squares and the other on black.
bless	Give a benediction to. Bless my soul Alan what are you doing.
christian	Following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ.
church	The body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church. Church a woman after childbirth.
clergy	In Christianity clergymen collectively as distinguished from the laity. All marriages were to be solemnized by the clergy.
coptic	The liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet.
curate	A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
dean	An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college. He is the dean of foreign correspondents.
deity	The creator and supreme being (in a monotheistic religion such as Christianity. A deity of ancient Greece.
diocesan	The bishop of a diocese.
diocese	The territorial jurisdiction of a bishop.
divinity	Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. Christ s divinity.
exchequer	The funds of a government or institution or individual. An important source of revenue to the sultan s exchequer.
holy	Morally and spiritually excellent. The holy month of Ramadan.
idyll	An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll. The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies.
ordination	Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements. The ordination of women.
parish	(in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states. A parish church.
pastor	Be pastor of a church or congregation. He continued to study law while pastoring in Chelsea.
pastoral	Associated with country life. Pastoral land.
pray	Address a prayer to God or another deity. And what pray was the purpose of that.
priest	Ordain to the priesthood. He was made deacon in 1990 and priested in 1994.
protestant	The Protestant churches and denominations collectively.
rite	Any customary observance or practice. The rite of communion.
sacerdotal	Of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism. Priestly or sacerdotal vestments.
temporal	Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. Temporal possessions of the church.
theologian	A person who engages or is an expert in theology.
theological	Of or relating to or concerning theology. A reworking of the past that was partly theological.
vicar	(in other Anglican Churches) a member of the clergy deputizing for another.