high priest

1. 1.

   a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine

   “he's the high priest of contemporary jazz”

   Broaderauthority
2. 2.

   a senior clergyman and dignitary

   Synonymsarchpriesthierarchprelateprimate

   Broaderpriest

   NarrowerIngeJimenez de CisnerosNewmanRichelieuTutuUssherWykehamWyszynski

Questions about high priest

What does high priest mean?

high priest means "a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for high priest?

Close synonyms include archpriest, hierarch, prelate, primate. 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 high priest a common word?

high priest 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.