SPIRITUAL LEADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiritual leader mean? 

• SPIRITUAL LEADER (noun)
  The noun SPIRITUAL LEADER has 1 sense:

1. a leader in religious or sacred affairs

  Familiarity information: SPIRITUAL LEADER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIRITUAL LEADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leader in religious or sacred affairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spiritual leader" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiritual leader"):

cantor; hazan (the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos)

Catholicos (the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches)

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

Evangelist ((when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

patriarch (title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem))

Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)

non-Christian priest; priest (a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion)

rabbi (spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law)

Instance hyponyms:

Gandhi; Mahatma Gandhi; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948))