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say it: PAY-puhl
papal is an adjective meaning "proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles". It is pronounced /ˈpeɪpəl/ — PAY-puhl. It carries one recorded sense.
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
“papal dispensation”
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 papal 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.