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say it: mahn-SEE-nyur
monsignor is a noun meaning "(Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests". It carries one recorded sense.
(Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
Roman Catholic
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for monsignor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.