PRELATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prelate mean? 

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

1. a senior clergyman and dignitary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRELATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A senior clergyman and dignitary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

archpriest; hierarch; high priest; prelate; primate

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

priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)

Instance hyponyms:

Gloomy Dean; Inge; William Ralph Inge (English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954))

Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros; Jimenez de Cisneros (prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517))

Cardinal Newman; John Henry Newman; Newman (English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890))

Armand Jean du Plessis; Cardinal Richelieu; Duc de Richelieu; Richelieu (French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642))

Desmond Tutu; Tutu (South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931))

James Usher; James Ussher; Usher; Ussher (Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656))

William of Wykeham; Wykeham (English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404))

Stefan Wyszynski; Wyszynski (Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981))

 Context examples 

He rose, and the two long lines of brothers followed his example, looking sideways with scared faces at the angry prelate.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.

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

In the cloisters he had heard vague talk of the law—the mighty law which was higher than prelate or baron, yet no sign could he see of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It needed but that to add fresh fuel to the fiery mood of the prelate.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)