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单词 priest
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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.

More examples

  • 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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priestnoun [ C ]

us/prist/

female priestess a person, usually a man, who has been trained to perform religious duties in some Christian churches, esp. the Roman Catholic Church, or a person with particular duties in some other religions:

a Catholic priest
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