PASTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pastor mean? 

• PASTOR (noun)
  The noun PASTOR has 2 senses:

1. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

2. only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

  Familiarity information: PASTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTOR (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 ("pastor" 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 "pastor"):

ministrant (someone who serves as a minister)

Derivation:

pastoral (of or relating to a pastor)

pastorship (the position of pastor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pastor; subgenus Pastor

Hypernyms ("Pastor" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Pastor"):

Pastor roseus; Pastor sturnus; rose-colored pastor; rose-colored starling (glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen; chiefly Asian)

Holonyms ("Pastor" is a member of...):

genus Sturnus; Sturnus (type genus of the Sturnidae: common starlings)

 Context examples 

Keenly, I fear, did the eye of the visitress pierce the young pastor's heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting colonies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had spoken earnestly, mildly: his look was not, indeed, that of a lover beholding his mistress, but it was that of a pastor recalling his wandering sheep—or better, of a guardian angel watching the soul for which he is responsible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)