beadle
[ beed-l ]
/ ˈbid l /
noun
a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
Origin of beadle
before 1000; Middle English
bedel, dial. (SE) variant of
bidel, Old English
bydel apparitor, herald (cognate with German
Büttel), equivalent to
bud- (weak stem of
bēodan to command) +
-il noun suffix
OTHER WORDS FROM beadle
sub·bea·dle, noun un·der·bea·dle, nounWords nearby beadle
beadeye,
beadflush,
beadhouse,
beading,
beading of ribs,
beadle,
beadledom,
beadroll,
beadsman,
beadswoman,
beadwork
Definition for beadle (2 of 2)
Beadle
[ beed-l ]
/ ˈbid l /
noun
George Wells,1903–1989,
U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
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British Dictionary definitions for beadle (1 of 2)
beadle
/ (ˈbiːdəl) /
noun
(formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order
(in Scotland) a church official attending on the minister
an official in certain British universities and other institutions
Derived forms of beadle
beadleship, nounWord Origin for beadle
Old English
bydel; related to Old High German
butil bailiff
British Dictionary definitions for beadle (2 of 2)
Beadle
/ (ˈbiːdəl) /
noun
George Wells . 1903–89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics
Medical definitions for beadle
Beadle
[ bēd′l ]
American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics.