minister
minister is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 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 servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- noun. An officer of justice.
- noun. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
- noun. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
- noun. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
- noun. To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
- intransitive verb. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
- intransitive verb. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
- noun. the job of a head of a government department
- noun. a person authorized to conduct religious worship
"clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"
- noun. a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- noun. a person appointed to a high office in the government
"Minister of Finance"
- verb. work as a minister
"She is ministering in an old parish"
- verb. attend to the wants and needs of others
"I have to minister to my mother all the time"
Synonyms
curate, parson, pastor, rector
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in minister:
Common word forms
ministers, ministered, ministering
Words from these letters
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