priestnoun [ C ]
uk/priːst/us/priːst/B1 a person, usually a man, who has been trained to perform religious duties in the Christian Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, or a person with particular duties in some other religions:
Father O'Dooley was ordained a priest in 1949.
There is still a ban on women priests in the Catholic Church.
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- an Anglican priest
- the parish priest
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Religious leaders & officials
- archbishop
- archbishopric
- archdeacon
- ayatollah
- bishop
- clerical
- confessor
- curacy
- curate
- deacon
- ministry
- muezzin
- mullah
- padre
- papal
- rabbi
- rector
- sexton
- swami
- the Dalai Lama
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