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# priest

«priest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to lead religious services and look…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a priest, priests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A priest is a person whose job is to lead religious services and look after people in a church or temple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#m1)

2) In some religions a priest makes special offerings or prayers for people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In religious education lessons priests are leaders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches and in some other religions; in other churches the leader may be called a minister, vicar or pastor. In stories a priest may marry a couple or help people in trouble.

### examples

- The priest welcomed everyone to the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x1)
- Father O'Brien is the priest at our local church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x2)
- The priest blessed the new baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x3)
- In ancient Egypt priests worked in the temples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x4)
- The priest read from the Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x5)
- My uncle is training to become a priest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x6)
- It was the captive Christian priest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/#x7)

### note

Countable. A Catholic priest is often called «Father». A woman priest is also called a priest (the old word «priestess» is used for ancient religions). Do not confuse with «pastor» or «vicar», which are similar roles.

### In the corpora

- ["A man of the cloth" means a priest or clergyman, someone whose job is to lead a church.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/15/)
- [But the priest also said: the sorry to your sister is still yours to say, and you said it — good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/12/)
- [The priest did not scold him for coming back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/8/)
- [Liam whispered «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned» and told the priest about the name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry/5/)
- [On Saturday he went to confession and told the priest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «priest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/priest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.