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