pastor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pastor (plural pastors)
- (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
- Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
- (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
- (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
- A bird, the rosy starling.
- 1944, Country Life (volume 95, page 820)
- Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.
- 1944, Country Life (volume 95, page 820)
- (someone with spiritual authority) shepherd
- (minister or priest in a church) elder
- (main priest serving a parish) parish priest
- Italian: pastore
- Russian: настоя́тель
pastor (pastors, present participle pastoring; past and past participle pastored)
- (Christianity, ambitransitive) To serve a congregation as pastor
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