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ARCHBISHOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archbishop mean? 

ARCHBISHOP (noun)
  The noun ARCHBISHOP has 1 sense:

1. a bishop of highest rankplay

  Familiarity information: ARCHBISHOP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARCHBISHOP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A bishop of highest rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)

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

metropolitan (in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity)

Instance hyponyms:

Anselm; Saint Anselm; St. Anselm (an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God)

Becket; Saint Thomas a Becket; St. Thomas a Becket; Thomas a Becket ((Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170))

Derivation:

archepiscopal; archiepiscopal (of or associated with an archbishop)


 Context examples 


I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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