bishops
Meaning of bishops
plural noun
- a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
- an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.
- 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.
- mulled and spiced wine.
Old English biscop, bisceop, based on Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.
Information about bishops
- It is a name.
- The singular form of bishops is: bishop.
- Languages in which bishops is used:
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Hyphenation of bishops
bish-ops
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- bishops is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bishops synonyms
Meaning a bishop or other high ecclesiastical dignitary:
Meaning the bishop of a diocese:
Meaning a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch:
Meaning a bishop appointed to help a diocesan bishop:
Meaning a bishop appointed to assist and often to succeed a diocesan bishop:
Meaning (in the Orthodox Church) a bishop lower in rank than a patriarch and having jurisdiction wider than the metropolitan of a diocese:
Words that rhyme with bishops
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