diocesan
/daɪˈɑsɪsən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a diocese.
noun
An inhabitant of a diocese.
Example Sentences
- "Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this."
- "The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’"
Etymology
From Middle French diocesain.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /daɪˈɑsɪsən/
- British English: /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/