Dictionary Entry
rector
rector is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A ruler or governor. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A ruler or governor.
- 2noun
A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
- 3noun
A clergyman in charge of a parish.
- 4noun
The head master of a public school.
- 5noun
The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
- 6noun
The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
- 7noun
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
"clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"
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