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