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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who gives religious instruction |
| Synonyms: | clergy, cleric, clerical, divine, ecclesiastic, evangelist, evangelizer, minister, missionary, parson, pulpiter, reverend, revivalist, sermonizer |
| Main Entry: | clergyperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | minister of church |
| Synonyms: | abbey, archbishop, bishop, blackcoat, cardinal, cassock, chaplain, churchperson, cleric, clerk, curate, dean, divine, ecclesiast, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, missionary, monsignor, padre, parson, pastor, person of God, person of the cloth, pontiff, preacher, predicant, priest, primate, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, rabbi, rector, reverend, sermonizer, shepherd, vicar |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | priest |
| Synonyms: | abbé, clergyman, confessor, curé, ecclesiastic, minister, padre, parson, pastor, preacher, reverend |
| Main Entry: | informant/informer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who delivers news |
| Synonyms: | accuser, adviser, announcer, betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, crier, deep throat, double-crosser, herald, interviewer, journalist, messenger, newscaster/newsperson, notifier, preacher, propagandist, rat, reporter, sneak, source, stool pigeon, tattler, tattletale |
| Main Entry: | minister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge of church |
| Synonyms: | abbot, archbishop, archdeacon, bishop, chaplain, clergy, clergyperson, cleric, clerical, clerk, confessor, curate, deacon, dean, diocesan, divine, ecclesiastic, lecturer, missionary, monk, parson, pastor, preacher, prelate, priest, pulpiteer, rector, reverend, shepherd, vicar |
| Notes: | a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader |
| Main Entry: | missionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who aids, does religious work |
| Synonyms: | apostle, clergy, clergyperson, converter, evangelist, herald, messenger, minister, missioner, pastor, preacher, promoter, propagandist, proselytizer, revivalist, teacher |
| Main Entry: | orator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speaker |
| Synonyms: | declaimer, lector, lecturer, pontificator, preacher, public speaker, reciter, rhetorician, sermonizer |
| Main Entry: | parson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleric |
| Synonyms: | chaplain, churchman/woman, clergyman/woman, ecclesiastic, minister, padre, pastor, preacher, priest, rector, reverend, vicar |
| Main Entry: | pastor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who conducts church services |
| Synonyms: | cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, minister, parson, preacher, priest, rector, reverend, shepherd, vicar |
| Notes: | a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader |
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