vicar

noun

Definition of vicarnext
as in rector

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Recent Examples of vicar The chapel vicar Cardinal Baldo Reina has issued a statement on the matter, but has not weighed in on whether the angel’s face is that of the prime minister. — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026 Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit. — Abigail Wise, Outside, 3 Jan. 2026 Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025 Essie, the vicar’s wife in Chloe Marr, cannot believe that the beautiful and glamorous Chloe was ever happy. — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vicar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicar
  1. rector
  2. pastor
  3. clergyman
  4. parson
  5. churchman
  6. bishop
  7. padre
  8. shepherd
Noun
  • In 2018, Father Jan Kevin Schmidt, rector of the cathedral, requested that the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments grant the title of minor basilica to the historic church in Cincinnati.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Pernkopf was a Nazi functionary who became dean of the medical faculty in 1938 and rector of the university in 1943.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of rector
Noun
  • Sutton said she was encouraged by her late grandfather, a mechanic and pastor, and by her early interest in cars.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
  • We were interrupted, introduced to the young pastor who’d led the service.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of pastor
Noun
  • The seeds are then planted in California, where Eddie Anderson, a clergyman, political organizer and the founder of Freedom Farms Collective, helps oversee their growth.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Costco ditches its Kirkland beer Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration today on the eve of Sheen’s beatification.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of clergyman
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  • This one stars Cox himself as a mysterious and formidable old man in an undertaker’s suit and parson’s hat who wanders into an Arizona border town in 1890 to gather the names of dead Mexican laborers.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • And what does the old man who sleeps by the fire know about the dead parson?
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2026
Definition of parson
Noun
  • Meanwhile, churchmen claimed the authority to restrain violence, encouraged just wars and threatened violent behaviors with spiritual sanctions.
    — Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of churchman
Noun
  • Warren Jeffs then appointed Nephi Jeffs, another brother, as bishop.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The former Robert Prevost was bishop of Chiclayo from 2014-2023, when Francis brought him to the Vatican to head the office for bishops.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of bishop
Noun
  • The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
Definition of padre
Noun
  • Another showed Lee on the floor of a gym in chocolate-chip camouflage pants, doing a situp while a German shepherd holds down his feet.
    — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • So has his dog, a German shepherd and very good boy named Odin.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of shepherd

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