episcopate

Other forms of episcopate

plural

episcopates·

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 episcopate

What does episcopate mean?

episcopate means "the term of office of a bishop". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in episcopate?

episcopate has 4 syllables: e-pi-sco-pate. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for episcopate?

Close synonyms include diocese, bishopric, episcopacy, bishopry. 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 episcopate a common word?

episcopate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.