RECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rector mean? 

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

1. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECTOR (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 ("rector" 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 "rector"):

ministrant (someone who serves as a minister)

 Context examples 

It was an encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It had then seemed the object nearest her heart, that Dr Shirley, the rector, who for more than forty years had been zealously discharging all the duties of his office, but was now growing too infirm for many of them, should be quite fixed on engaging a curate; should make his curacy quite as good as he could afford, and should give Charles Hayter the promise of it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The rector of a parish has much to do.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)