priest

«priest» in Mova's school dictionary: a person whose job is to lead religious services and look… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a priest, priests)

meaning for a pupil

1) A priest is a person whose job is to lead religious services and look after people in a church or temple. tree →

2) In some religions a priest makes special offerings or prayers for people. tree →

sense in the lessons

In religious education lessons priests are leaders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches and in some other religions; in other churches the leader may be called a minister, vicar or pastor. In stories a priest may marry a couple or help people in trouble.

examples

• The priest welcomed everyone to the church. tree →
• Father O'Brien is the priest at our local church. tree →
• The priest blessed the new baby. tree →
• In ancient Egypt priests worked in the temples. tree →
• The priest read from the Bible. tree →
• My uncle is training to become a priest. tree →
• It was the captive Christian priest. tree →

note

Countable. A Catholic priest is often called «Father». A woman priest is also called a priest (the old word «priestess» is used for ancient religions). Do not confuse with «pastor» or «vicar», which are similar roles.

In the corpora

• "A man of the cloth" means a priest or clergyman, someone whose job is to lead a church.
• But the priest also said: the sorry to your sister is still yours to say, and you said it — good.
• The priest did not scold him for coming back.
• Liam whispered «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned» and told the priest about the name.
• On Saturday he went to confession and told the priest.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «priest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.