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.
Definitions
- noun. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- noun. 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.
- noun. In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- noun. A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- noun. A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- noun. An old name for a woman's bustle.
- transitive verb. To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- transitive verb. To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
- noun. (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- noun. port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- noun. 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
Common word forms
bishops, bishoped, bishopful, bishoping, bishopless
Words from these letters
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