Usually means: Religious leader, conducts worship, rituals.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word priest:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. priest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. priest: Merriam-Webster
  3. priest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. priest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. priest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. priest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Priest, priest: Wordnik
  8. priest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Priest, priest: Wiktionary
  10. priest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. priest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. priest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. priest: Dictionary.com
  14. priest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. priest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Priest (Catholic), Priest (Catholic Church), Priest (Latter Day Saints), Priest (Mormonism), Priest (TV series), Priest (World of Warcraft), Priest (comics), Priest (disambiguation), Priest (film), Priest (manhwa), Priest (religion), Priest (surname), Priest (tool), Priest, The Priest (film), The Priest (mountain), The Priest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Priest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. priest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. priest: Rhymezone
  20. priest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. priest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. priest: FreeDictionary.org
  23. priest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. priest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Priest (religion), priest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. priest: Idioms

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Priest: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Priest: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Priest, priest: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Priest: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
priest
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
▸ noun:  A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
▸ noun:  (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To ordain as a priest.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
non-christian priest, bishop, clergyman, parishioner, cleric, monk, seminarian, priestess, vicar, clergy, more...

Opposite:
criminal, sinner, layperson, nonbeliever, atheist

Types:
Catholic priest, Anglican priest, Buddhist monk, Hindu priest, Muslim imam, Jewish rabbi, Mormon elder, more...

Phrases:
high priest, parish priest, catholic priest, chief priest, Judas Priest, more...

Adjectives:
high, old, young, chief, local, parish, buddhist, jesuit, french, secular, poor

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↻From "A Little Priest" from "Sweeney Todd":

It's priest. Have a little priest.
Is it really good?
Sir, it's too good, at least!
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh,
18 of 100+ verses

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Similar:
non-christian priest, bishop, clergyman, parishioner, cleric, monk, seminarian, priestess, vicar, clergy, more...

Opposite:
criminal, sinner, layperson, nonbeliever, atheist

Types:
Catholic priest, Anglican priest, Buddhist monk, Hindu priest, Muslim imam, Jewish rabbi, Mormon elder, more...

Phrases:
high priest, parish priest, catholic priest, chief priest, Judas Priest, assistant priest, cardinal priest, fetish priest, seminary priest, spoiled priest, priest ridden, priest penitent privilege, more...

Adjectives:
high, old, young, chief, local, parish, buddhist, jesuit, french, secular, poor

Colors:
    black,     white,     purple,     gold,     green, more...



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