minister

1. 1.

   attend to the wants and needs of others

   “I have to minister to my mother all the time”

   Broaderattend
2. 2.

   work as a minister

   “She is ministering in an old parish”

   Broaderwork

Other forms of minister

plural

ministers·

past tense

ministerred·

present participle

ministerring·

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 minister

What does minister mean?

minister means "a person authorized to conduct religious worship". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in minister?

minister has 3 syllables: min-i-ster. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˈmɪnəstɚ/.

What is another word for minister?

Close synonyms include curate, minister of religion, 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 minister a common word?

minister is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with minister?

1 word rhymes with minister. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.