MASCULINE priest FEMININE priestess

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priest English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word priest once they have reached the level B1 – Lower Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning priest meaning

What does priest mean?

Definitions in simple English

priest Noun

— A priest is a person who leads or performs ceremonies in a religion. The priest stood in front of the people and blessed them.

priest

— noun a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

— noun a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion

Synonyms priest synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as priest?

priest English » English

clergyman

minister

monk

pastor

father

preacher

abbot

reverend

cleric

presbyter

parson

missionary

vicar

preceptor

padre

hermit

divine

chaplain

ascetic

teacher

spiritual guide

sacrificer

rector

pope

non-Christian priest

entering the priesthood

diviner

churchman

abbé

Buddhist priest

wizard

witch

wise man

virtuous priest

venerable monk

tongs

theologian

spiritual father

sorcerer

soothsayer

skypilot

sky pilot

sir

shaman

saint

sage

sadhu

religious leader

rabbi

priestling

Topics priest topics

What do people use priest to talk about?

Language and thought Think Mind

Intelligent

• What words refer to a person who thinks well?
  academician genius highbrow illuminati intellectual literati magus philosopher priest prodigy sage scholar scholastic thinker able thinker wise man

Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Religious person

• What is a leader of the (Christian-Catholic) religion called?
  priest father bishop archbishop Cardinal pope man of the cloth

Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Christianity

• What words are used to talk about Christianity?
  Christian Christianity Jesus Christ the Virgin Mary the Trinity the Father the Son of God the Holy Spirit Lord cross crucify crucifixion resurrection Bible Biblical Scripture Old Testament New Testament Gospel apostle church chapel churchgoer priest vicar minister pastor service Communion Mass sacrament baptize baptism christen christening Christian name confession Christmas Good Friday Easter crucifix make the sign of the cross saint patron saint Roman Catholic Catholic Pope papal Orthodox Church Reformation Protestant Church Protestant Anglican Baptist Methodist Lutheran Presbyterian

Work and occupation

Occupation

• What are the occupations in religion?
  pastor priest clergyman diviner

Examples priest examples

How do I use priest in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom didn't want to become a priest.

I kissed the hand of the priest.

The priest participated in the children's games.

The priest participated in the children's game.

The priest pretends to be solemn in public.

The priest blessed the congregation.

The priest blessed the marriage of the happy couple.

The priest blessed the newly built church.

The main duty of a priest is to preach in church.

I heard that a gay priest had been promoted to the rank of bishop, but it turned out to be a fabrication.

As the catterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

My brother has become a priest.

The priest made the sign of the cross as the casket was lowered into the ground.

Tom is a priest.

The priest said that this book could be harmful to youth.

What the hell does a priest know about that?

The priest took the sick man's place.

According to one legend, it gets its name from a priest.

The priest blessed us.

The priest pronounced them man and wife.

I give up. What do an Irish priest and Congolese witch doctor have in common?

Like priest, like people.

Tom disguised himself as a priest.

Movie subtitles

Priest!

Priest Takuan.

Priest Takuan. Musashi.

Arbaces stabs the priest Meneker and turns the suspicion to Glaucus.

The next-door room is occupied by a priest.

Do you want to go to look for a parish priest, Maria?

The parish priest left.

The High Priest.

No, my priest.

I send you this devoted priest.

I tell him to be a man, but he shakes his head and goes to the priest.

The scroll from which this was copied was stolen 10 years ago, together with the mummy of the High Priest Imhotep.

Herr Poelzig is the great modern priest of that ancient cult and tonight, dark of the moon, the rites of Lucifer are celebrated.

We had a priest and witnesses.

No, Annie, I shall not become a priest.

I am not a priest yet and probably shall never be one.

Dear friends! I should have been a priest but Satan crossed my plans.

The next day, at dawn, the priest set off with his godson.

Without a priest!

Where is the priest?

But our priest is a fine violinist.

They say her mother was a sacred dancer, her father a temple priest.

Holy John Judas Priest.

A Tale of a Hapless Mercenary Khmyr, His Horse-Wife Anna, His Well-Fed Neighbor Foka, and Also of a Priest, a Nun and Other Old Relics.

Such a priest is dying!

Hitihiti, chief of the island, priest of the temple.

Priest Takuan. what's with that kodachi?

Priest Takuan!

PRIEST: Repeat after me.

PRIEST: And thereto I plight thee my troth.

PRIEST: Loose hands.

We must send tidings to the priest.

Having lunched with the Marquis de Beauvoir, our priest. arrived by bicycle at 4:00.

Whether he be dressed as priest, beggar, knight.. palmer,whatdisguisecan conceal the finest archer in England?

You certainly make a good-looking priest.

Jerry Connelly, the priest from the parish.

I've been trailing him, but he's mixed up with a priest and kids. -. andI can'tgetacrackathim.

News and current affairs

Williamson's opinions suddenly mattered, because this obscure, excommunicated priest was about to be reinstated by the Pope.

At the edge of death, but still clinging to life, Diego Maradona seems these days both priest and victim of a tragic Argentine ritual.

The hatred began when Aristide, then a parish priest and democracy campaigner against Haiti's ruthless Duvalier dictatorship, preached liberation theology in the 1980's.

America exported its deregulatory free market philosophy, which even its high priest, Alan Greenspan, now admits was a mistake.

Talking to a stranger, whom one has never met before and will not meet again, may impede the normal processes of recovery that rely on one's own social networks - family, friends, priest, doctor, who may be better able to place the trauma in context.

To quote Havel's close friend, the Catholic priest and philosopher Tomas Halik (whom Havel once proposed as his successor), democracy without civil society is like a body without blood circulation.

As a very junior priest who derives his authority from his dead Ayatollah father - himself a populist - Sadr is opposed by Iraq's living Ayatollahs, who despise his ignorance and violence.

Fang Jue, a reformer who served a four-year term for economic crimes, and Jiang Surang, an underground Catholic priest sentenced to six years for illegally publishing Bibles, were both punished in this way.