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pastor

[pas-ter, pah-ster]

noun

  1. a minister or priest in charge of a church.

  2. a person having spiritual care of a number of persons.

  3. Ornithology.any of various starlings, especially Sturnus roseus rosy pastor of Europe and Asia.



verb (used with object)

  1. to serve as the pastor of.

    He pastored the church here for many years.

pastor

/ ˈɑːə /

noun

  1. a clergyman or priest in charge of a congregation

  2. a person who exercises spiritual guidance over a number of people

  3. an archaic word for shepherd

  4. Also called: rosy pastor.a S Asian starling, Sturnus roseus, having glossy black head and wings and a pale pink body

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pastor

  1. In some groups of Christians (see also Christian), the clergyman in charge of an individual congregation. The term is used this way in the Lutheran Church and Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, by Baptists and in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • pastorless adjective
  • pastorlike adjective
  • pastorly adjective
  • subpastor noun
  • ˈ貹ٴǰˌ󾱱 noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pastor1

1325–75; < Latin ٴǰ shepherd, literally, feeder, equivalent to -, base of to put to pasture, feed + -tor -tor; replacing Middle English pastour < Anglo-French
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pastor1

C14: from Latin: shepherd, from pascere to feed
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A church pastor from Boyle Heights said his parishioners “feel hunted.”

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“We see that you are putting on your masks; you don’t need them,” Rev. Eddie Anderson, pastor of McCarty Memorial Christian Church and a leader with LA Voice, said to the officers and guardsmen.

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As Bagby pulled up to the church, the pastor and several volunteers were waiting outside.

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It was a message that got a huge boost from evangelicals, especially pastors at megachurches who didn't want to put church services online, depriving them of the adulation of the adoring crowd.

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A top official in one of South Africa's biggest political parties has been sacked after he visited a controversial Malawian pastor in April.

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