Synonyms for priest
- noun
All synonyms
Noun
Definitions
- n. 1
A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
The Shinto priest burnt incense for his ancestors.
Related words
- Word family
- priest-doctor priestess priesthood priestlike priestly priestship
- Phrases
- high priest chief priest head priest parish priest
- Is a kind of
- cleric
Forms
- Plural
- priests → clergymen, vicars, pastors, ministers…
Example sentences
- minister The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
- pastor Tom is the pastor at the church that Mary goes to.
- vicar The vicar often refers to the Bible in his sermon.
- clergyman The clergyman has married three couples this week.
- cassock The priest's cassock billowed gently in the wind.
By length
- 5 letters
- vicar2
- 6 letters
- divine2, pastor2
- 7 letters
- cassock2
- 8 letters
- minister3
- 9 letters
- clergyman3, churchman2, presbyter
- 10 letters
- hierophant
- 12 letters
- ecclesiastic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vicar2 = 2 syllables).