Associations to the word «Priest»

Pictures for the word «Priest»

Wiktionary

PRIEST, noun. A religious clergyman who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
PRIEST, noun. A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
PRIEST, noun. (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
PRIEST, verb. (transitive) To ordain as a priest.
PRIEST, proper noun. A surname​.
PRIEST, proper noun. Graham Priest. A philosopher and logician who invented dialetheism the belief that a statement can be true and false at the same time and in the same senses of the words.
PRIEST HOLE, noun. (UK) A secret compartment in a large house, used as a hiding place for priests during the times when Catholicism was forbidden.

Dictionary definition

PRIEST, noun. A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders.
PRIEST, noun. A person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope