pluralist

1. 1.

   a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time

   Broadercleric
2. 2.

   a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature

   Broaderphilosopher
3. 3.

   someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society

   Broaderliberal

Other forms of pluralist

plural

pluralists·

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 pluralist

What does pluralist mean?

pluralist means "a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pluralist?

pluralist has 3 syllables: plu-ra-list. The stress falls on "plu".

Is pluralist a common word?

pluralist 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.