priest

Other forms of priest

plural

priests·

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 priest

What does priest mean?

priest means "a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in priest?

priest has 1 syllable: priest. In IPA it is /ˈpɹist/.

What is another word for priest?

Close synonyms include non-Christian priest. 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 priest a common word?

priest is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.