Dictionary Entry
bishop
bishop is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- 2noun
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
- 3noun
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- 4noun
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- 5noun
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- 6noun
An old name for a woman's bustle.
- 7transitive verb
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- 8transitive verb
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
- 9noun
(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- 10noun
port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- 11noun
a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
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