name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pastor
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.stə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈpæs.tɚ/
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rhymes with -ɑːstə(ɹ)
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rhymes with -æstə(ɹ)
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homophone: pasta (Australian, New Zealand, Northern England, non-rhotic)
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
A minister or priest in a church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: Christianity, Protestantism, lifestyle, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shepherd, elder, pastor-teacher
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 4
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
The main priest serving a parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism, lifestyle, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shepherd, parish priest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 5
A bird, the rosy starling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To serve a congregation as pastor
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, stative
Topics: Christianity
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: subgenus Pastor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bird genus
noun
Meaning 8
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, minister, parson, rector
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth
Narrower terms: ministrant
History
Etymology
See pastor.
From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.
Across languages
Translations
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: pastor — minister or priest
- Arabic: قِسِّيس (qissīs) — minister or priest
- Armenian: պաստոր (pastor) — minister or priest
- Azerbaijani: pastor — minister or priest
- Belarusian: па́стар (pástar) — minister or priest
- Bulgarian: па́стор (pástor) — minister or priest
- Catalan: capellà — minister or priest
- Catalan: mossèn — minister or priest
- Catalan: sacerdot — minister or priest
- Catalan: pastor — minister or priest
- Chinese Cantonese: 傳道人 /传道人 (cyun4 dou6 jan4) — minister or priest
- Chinese Cantonese: 牧師 /牧师 (muk6 si1) — minister or priest
- Chinese Mandarin: 傳道人 /传道人 (chuándàorén) — minister or priest
- Chinese Mandarin: 牧師 /牧师 (mùshī) — minister or priest
- Czech: pastor — minister or priest
- Danish: pastor — minister or priest
- Dutch: priester — minister or priest
- Estonian: pastor — minister or priest
- Finnish: pastori — minister or priest
- Finnish: pappi — minister or priest
- French: pasteur — minister or priest
- Georgian: პასტორი (ṗasṭori) — minister or priest
- German: Pastor — minister or priest
- German: Pastorin — minister or priest
- Greek: πάστορας (pástoras) — minister or priest
- Hebrew: כומר — minister or priest
- Hebrew: כֹּמֶר (kómer) — minister or priest
- Hungarian: pásztor — minister or priest
- Hungarian: lelkipásztor — minister or priest
- Indonesian: pendeta — minister or priest
- Indonesian: pastor — minister or priest
- Italian: pastore — minister or priest
- Japanese: 牧師 (bokushi) — minister or priest
- Kazakh: пастор (pastor) — minister or priest
- Korean: 목사 (moksa) — minister or priest
- Kyrgyz: пастор (pastor) — minister or priest
- Latvian: mācītājs — minister or priest
- Lithuanian: pastorius — minister or priest
- Macedonian: пастор (pastor) — minister or priest
- Khiamniungan Naga: āmpāu — minister or priest
- Norwegian Bokmål: pastor — minister or priest
- Iranian Persian: کَشیش (kašiš) — minister or priest
- Iranian Persian: قِسّیس (ġessis) — minister or priest
- Plautdietsch: Prädja — minister or priest
- Polish: pastor — minister or priest
- Portuguese: pastor — minister or priest
- Romanian: păstor — minister or priest
- Russian: па́стор (pástor) — minister or priest
- Serbo-Croatian: па̏стор — minister or priest
- Serbo-Croatian: pȁstor — minister or priest
- Slovak: pastor — minister or priest
- Slovene: pastor — minister or priest
- Lower Sorbian: faraŕ — minister or priest
- Spanish: pastor — minister or priest
- Swedish: pastor — minister or priest
- Tagalog: pastor — minister or priest
- Tajik: пастор (pastor) — minister or priest
- Thai: ศิษยาภิบาล — minister or priest
- Turkish: pastör — minister or priest
- Ukrainian: па́стор (pástor) — minister or priest
- Uzbek: pastor — minister or priest
- Vietnamese: mục sư — minister or priest
- Catalan: rector — main priest serving a parish
- Catalan: mossèn — main priest serving a parish
- Finnish: pastori — main priest serving a parish
- Greek: εφημέριος (efimérios) — main priest serving a parish
- Indonesian: pastor — main priest serving a parish
- Italian: pastore — main priest serving a parish
- Polish: proboszcz — main priest serving a parish
- Russian: настоя́тель (nastojátelʹ) — main priest serving a parish
- Lower Sorbian: faraŕ — main priest serving a parish
- Tagalog: pastor — main priest serving a parish
- Ukrainian: настоя́тель (nastojátelʹ) — main priest serving a parish
- Vietnamese: cha xứ — main priest serving a parish
- Vietnamese: cha chính xứ — main priest serving a parish
- Vietnamese: cha chánh xứ — main priest serving a parish
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