Word: churchwardens
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: church
war
dens
Definition: Plural of churchwarden; an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters
Morphemes:
Affix: church
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A particular denomination of Christianity.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: κυριακόν
Language: grc
Decoded: kuriakon
PoS: Noun
Meaning: church
Affix: ward
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
Affix: -en
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to denote the plural form of a small number of English nouns, the majority of whose etymologies go back to the n-stem (i.e. weak noun) declension of Germanic languages.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.