CURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curate mean? 

• CURATE (noun)
  The noun CURATE has 1 sense:

1. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURATE (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 ("curate" 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 "curate"):

ministrant (someone who serves as a minister)

 Context examples 

It did not appear to me that—in short, you know, Dr Shirley must have a curate, and you had secured his promise.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is the curate of the parish I dare say.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I say again, I will be your curate, if you like, but never your wife.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“She is a curate's daughter,” said Traddles; “one of ten, down in Devonshire. Yes!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His curate does all the work, and the business of his own life is to dine.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The young curate came in, however, and Mrs. Westenra asked him to stay for supper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Henry was not able to obey his father's injunction of remaining wholly at Northanger in attendance on the ladies, during his absence in London, the engagements of his curate at Woodston obliging him to leave them on Saturday for a couple of nights.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oh! ay,—Mr Wentworth, the curate of Monkford.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I knew enough of Mr. Micawber by this time, to foresee that he might be expected to recover the blow; but my night's rest was sorely distressed by thoughts of Traddles, and of the curate's daughter, who was one of ten, down in Devonshire, and who was such a dear girl, and who would wait for Traddles (ominous praise!) until she was sixty, or any age that could be mentioned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)