curate

1. 1.

   a person authorized to conduct religious worship

   “clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches”

   Synonymsminister of religionministerparsonpastorrector

   Broaderclergyman

   Narrowerministrant

Other forms of curate

plural

curates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about curate

What does curate mean?

curate means "a person authorized to conduct religious worship".

How many syllables are in curate?

curate has 2 syllables: cur-ate. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹət/.

What is another word for curate?

Close synonyms include minister of religion, minister, parson, pastor, rector. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curate a common word?

curate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.