name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Standard Lemma guide
rector
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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General-American: /ˈɹɛktɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛktə/
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rhymes with -ɛktə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: R EH1 K T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A placename, from the surname:
A city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A placename, from the surname:
A ghost town in Shannon County, Missouri, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 6
In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 7
A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 8
In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: cleric
noun
Meaning 9
A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 11
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, pastor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth
Narrower terms: ministrant
History
Etymology
Americanized form of German Richter.
Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ծխակեր (cxaker) — cleric in charge of a parish
- Bulgarian: енорийски свещеник (enorijski sveštenik) — cleric in charge of a parish
- Dutch: predikant — cleric in charge of a parish
- Dutch: dominee — cleric in charge of a parish
- Finnish: kirkkoherra — cleric in charge of a parish
- Hungarian: plébános — cleric in charge of a parish
- Irish: reachtaire — cleric in charge of a parish
- Italian: parroco — cleric in charge of a parish
- Macedonian: жу́пник (žúpnik) — cleric in charge of a parish
- Macedonian: па́рох (pároh) — cleric in charge of a parish
- Norman: recteu — cleric in charge of a parish
- Polish: proboszcz — cleric in charge of a parish
- Portuguese: reitor — cleric in charge of a parish
- Romanian: paroh — cleric in charge of a parish
- Russian: па́стор (pástor) — cleric in charge of a parish
- Serbo-Croatian: жу̑пнӣк — cleric in charge of a parish
- Serbo-Croatian: žȗpnīk — cleric in charge of a parish
- Armenian: ռեկտոր (ṙektor) — headmaster or headmistress
- Bulgarian: ре́ктор (réktor) — headmaster or headmistress
- Chinese Mandarin: 院長 /院长 (yuànzhǎng) — headmaster or headmistress
- Czech: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Dutch: rector — headmaster or headmistress
- Dutch: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Esperanto: rektoro — headmaster or headmistress
- Esperanto: rektorino — headmaster or headmistress
- Finnish: rehtori — headmaster or headmistress
- French: recteur — headmaster or headmistress
- French: rectrice — headmaster or headmistress
- German: Rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- German: Rektorin — headmaster or headmistress
- Greek: πρύτανης (prýtanis) — headmaster or headmistress
- Hungarian: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Hungarian: igazgató — headmaster or headmistress
- Indonesian: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Irish: uachtarán — headmaster or headmistress
- Italian: rettore — headmaster or headmistress
- Italian: rettoressa — headmaster or headmistress
- Kazakh: ректор (rektor) — headmaster or headmistress
- Macedonian: ре́ктор (réktor) — headmaster or headmistress
- Macedonian: ре́кторка (réktorka) — headmaster or headmistress
- Norman: recteu — headmaster or headmistress
- Polish: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Portuguese: reitor — headmaster or headmistress
- Portuguese: reitora — headmaster or headmistress
- Romanian: rector — headmaster or headmistress
- Romanian: rectoară — headmaster or headmistress
- Russian: ре́ктор (réktor) — headmaster or headmistress
- Serbo-Croatian: ре̏ктор — headmaster or headmistress
- Serbo-Croatian: rȅktor — headmaster or headmistress
- Swedish: rektor — headmaster or headmistress
- Turkish: rektör — headmaster or headmistress
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