Rector synonyms

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clergywoman
A woman who is a member of the clergy.
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minister (related)
A diplomatic officer sent to a foreign nation to represent his or her government, usually ranking below an ambassador
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clergyman
A man who is a member of the clergy.
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principal
(UK, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
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parson
An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
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cleric
A member of the clergy
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headmaster
In certain, esp. private, schools, the man in charge of the school; principal
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priest
In the early Christian church, a presbyter, or elder
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proctor
A person employed to manage the affairs of another; agent; attorney
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curate
(Archaic) Any clergyman
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minister of religion
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
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pastor
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
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vicar (related)
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archdeacon (related)
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bishop (related)
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prebendary (related)
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schoolmaster (related)
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abbot (related)
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churchwarden (related)
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priest-in-charge (related)
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rural dean (related)
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precentor (related)
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prebend (related)
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parish-priest (related)
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archbishop (related)
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rev (related)
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Rector Sentence Examples

  • He became rector of St James's, Westminster, in 1733, and bishop of Bristol in 1735.

  • ROBERT LOWE SHERBROOKE, VISCOUNT (1811-1892), British statesman, was born on the 4th of December 1811 at Bingham, Notts, where his father was the rector.

  • In 1872 he became docent, and in 1882 professor of political economy at Upsala, of which university he was afterwards rector.

  • THOMAS HILL GREEN (1836-1882), English philosopher, the most typical English representative of the school of thought called Neo-Kantian, or Neo-Hegelian, was born on the 7th of April 1836 at Birkin, a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, of which his father was rector.

  • He took part in founding the university of Halle (1694), where he became second and then first professor of law and rector of the university.

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