MINISTER OF RELIGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minister of religion mean? 

• MINISTER OF RELIGION (noun)
  The noun MINISTER OF RELIGION has 1 sense:

1. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

  Familiarity information: MINISTER OF RELIGION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINISTER OF RELIGION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person authorized to conduct religious worship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

curate; minister; minister of religion; parson; pastor; rector

Context example:

clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches

Hypernyms ("minister of religion" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "minister of religion"):

ministrant (someone who serves as a minister)