Usually means: Caretaker of a church property.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sexton: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sexton: Merriam-Webster
  3. sexton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sexton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sexton: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sexton, sexton: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sexton, sexton: Wordnik
  8. sexton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sexton, sexton: Wiktionary
  10. sexton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sexton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sexton: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sexton: Dictionary.com
  14. sexton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sexton (artillery), Sexton (office), Sexton (surname), Sexton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sexton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sexton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sexton: Rhymezone
  19. Sexton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sexton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sexton: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sexton: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. sexton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Sexton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Sexton: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sexton (disambiguation), sexton: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sexton (disambiguation), sexton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SEXTON, SEXTON, SEXTON: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sexton: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sexton: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sextons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
noun:  A sexton beetle.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.

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