Definition of beadle Beadle

/biˈdʌl/ - [beedul] - Bea•dle

We found 11 definitions of beadle from 6 different sources.

What does beadle mean?

Noun Plural: beadles
beadle - a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
		functionary, official someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
beadle - United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
		George Beadle, George Wells Beadle

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beadle (Noun)
A parish constable, a uniformed minor lay official, who ushers and keeps order.
beadle (Noun)
An attendant to the minister.
beadle (Noun)
A warrant officer .

beadle (v.)
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
beadle (v.)
An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
beadle (v.)
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

beadle
bēd′l, n. a mace-bearer (esp. of the 'bedels' or 'bedells,' official attendants of the Oxford and Cambridge vice-chancellors): a petty officer of a church, college, parish, &c.: a parish officer with the power of punishing petty offenders: in Scotland, used of the 'church-officer' attending on the clergyman: (obs.) a messenger or crier of a court.—ns. Bead′ledom, Bead′lehood, stupid officiousness; Bead′leship, Bed′elship, the office of beadle or bedel. [A.S. bydel—béodan, to proclaim, to bid.]

A beadle is someone who works at a church or a Jewish synagogue and helps the clergy. A beadle's main job is to show people to their seats and to keep order during church services.

Like many words that describe a person's job, the word beadle can also be used as a last name.

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beadle in sign language