Meanings
plural clerical collars
- A stiff white collar, having no opening at the front, fastened at the back, worn by members of the Christian clergy.
Synonyms: clergy collar, dog collar, Roman collar
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA stiff white collar, having no opening at the front, fastened at the back, worn by members of the Christian clergy.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna stiff white collar with no opening in the front; a distinctive symbol of the clergy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan alçacoll
- alçacollcollar worn by clergy
Chinese Mandarin 羅馬領 /罗马领
- 羅馬領 /罗马领 (luómǎlǐng)collar worn by clergy
Czech kolárek
- kolárekcollar worn by clergy
Finnish papinkaulus
- papinkauluscollar worn by clergy
French col romain, col pasteur
- col romaincollar worn by clergy
- col pasteurcollar worn by clergy
German Kollar
- Kollarcollar worn by clergy
Irish bóna sagairt
- bóna sagairtcollar worn by clergy
Italian collarino
- collarinocollar worn by clergy
Polish koloratka
- koloratkacollar worn by clergy
Portuguese clérgima, colarinho clerical
- clérgimacollar worn by clergy
- colarinho clericalcollar worn by clergy
- colarinho romanocollar worn by clergy
- cabeçãocollar worn by clergy
Spanish alzacuello, alzacuellos
- alzacuellocollar worn by clergy
- alzacuelloscollar worn by clergy
- clérimancollar worn by clergy
Swedish prästkrage
- prästkragecollar worn by clergy
Welsh coler crwn, coler gron
- coler crwncollar worn by clergy
- coler groncollar worn by clergy
Cite this entry
clerical collar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerical%20collar
“clerical collar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerical%20collar. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clerical collar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clerical%20collar.
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