bishop

Meaning of bishop

noun
  1. a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
  2. an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.
  3. a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black.
  4. mulled and spiced wine.

Old English biscop, bisceop, based on Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.

Information about bishop

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of bishop is: bishops.
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Hyphenation of bishop

bishop

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • bishop is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bishop synonyms

Meaning a bishop or other high ecclesiastical dignitary:

prelate

Meaning the bishop of a diocese:

diocesan

Meaning a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch:

metropolitan

Meaning a bishop appointed to help a diocesan bishop:

suffragan

Meaning a bishop appointed to assist and often to succeed a diocesan bishop:

coadjutor

Meaning (in the Orthodox Church) a bishop lower in rank than a patriarch and having jurisdiction wider than the metropolitan of a diocese:

exarch

Translation of bishop

Words that rhyme with bishop

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