Word Meaning

Meaning of "rector" and the crossword clue

- Anglican parish priest
- Audition wrecked a cleric
- Clergyman
- Member of the clergy
- Minister
- Parson
- Vicar
- A ruler or governor.
- A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
- A clergyman in charge of a parish.
- The head master of a public school.
- The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
- The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.