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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bea•dle (bēd′l),USA pronunciation n. - a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
- Judaismsexton (def. 2).
- Middle English bedel, dialect, dialectal (SE) variant of bidel, Old English bydel apparitor, herald (cognate with German Büttel), equivalent. to bud- (weak stem of bēodan to command) + -il noun, nominal suffix bef. 1000
- Biographical George Wells, born 1903, U.S. biologist and educator: Nobel prize for medicine 1958.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: beadle /ˈbiːdəl/ n - (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
- a synagogue attendant
- an official in certain British universities and other institutions
Etymology: Old English bydel; related to Old High German butil bailiffˈbeadleship n Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Beadle /ˈbiːdəl/ n - George Wells. 1903–89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics
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