(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
(countable) A group of religiousadherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
(countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
(countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
(architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
