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PAPACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does papacy mean?
• PAPACY (noun)
The noun PAPACY has 1 sense:
1. the government of the Roman Catholic Church
Familiarity information: PAPACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The government of the Roman Catholic Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
papacy; pontificate
Hypernyms ("papacy" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Meronyms (members of "papacy"):
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
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