minister of religion

1. 1.

   a person authorized to conduct religious worship

   “clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches”

   Synonymscurateministerparsonpastorrector

   Broaderclergyman

   Narrowerministrant

Questions about minister of religion

What does minister of religion mean?

minister of religion means "a person authorized to conduct religious worship".

What is another word for minister of religion?

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

minister of religion 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.