padre

noun

Definition of padrenext
as in priest

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Recent Examples of padre The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025 The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers. — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for padre
  1. priest
  2. clergyman
  3. churchman
  4. reverend
  5. preacher
  6. deacon
  7. cleric
  8. father
Noun
  • The Vatican said the photo was taken Sunday when the pope celebrated Mass with other priests in the chapel.
    — Joshua McElwee, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, cries for help emerged on social media for a group of priests trapped inside a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood, which endured much of the attack by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition that began late Tuesday.
    — Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of priest
Noun
  • Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.
    — Federico Perelmuter, The Dial, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The emails, sent from Saints accounts, don’t specify which clergymen were removed from the list or why.
    — Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Definition of clergyman
Noun
  • Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
Definition of churchman
Noun
  • As a reverend leading a congregation, my work doesn’t end with a sermon.
    — Kevin English, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The reverend at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families in her sermon Tuesday.
    — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
Definition of reverend
Noun
  • To the congregation, Rose had been much more than a charismatic preacher.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of preacher
Noun
  • Reforms on the table include how to give greater roles to women in the Catholic Church, including ordaining them as deacons, and the greater inclusion of laity in governance and decision making.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Image Ukrainian officials have asserted that Russia maintains a wide network of sleeper agents, and have variously accused a nurse, a church deacon, a high-ranking official in Ukraine’s intelligence agency.
    — Kim Barker, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of deacon
Noun
  • Hardline Muslim clerics and their religious police have been sidelined.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
  • He was elected leader of the armed group in 1992 as a 32-year-old cleric.
    — CNN Staff, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
Definition of cleric
Noun
  • His father was an NBA coach, and Lucas played under Billy Donovan at Florida and Rick Barnes at Texas.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The son of a pharmaceutical distributor started Sun Pharma in 1983 with a $200 loan from his father to produce psychiatric drugs.
    — Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Padre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/padre. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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