pastor

Other forms of pastor

plural

pastors·

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 pastor

What does pastor mean?

pastor means "a person authorized to conduct religious worship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pastor?

pastor has 2 syllables: pas-tor. The stress falls on "pas". In IPA it is /ˈpæstɚ/.

What is another word for pastor?

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

pastor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 pastor?

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