Crossword clues for pastor
pastor
- Historic military forces chaplain
- Church official
- Man of the cloth
- Spiritual guide
- Church figure
- Church VIP
- Sermon deliverer
- Leader of the flock
- Pulpit figure
- Sunday speaker
- Sermon giver
- One of the clergy
- Local clergyman
- Church minister
- Weekly speaker
- Spiritual one
- Service VIP
- Sermon speaker
- Pulpit person
- Minister in church
- Martin Luther King, Jr., for Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- Leader who wears a clerical collar
- Guardian of souls
- Flock overseer
- Churchgoing man
- A sport (anag)
- Parish leader
- Leader of a flock
- Flock leader
- One who may marry repeatedly
- Flock's overseer
- Congregation leader
- Manse occupant
- Service provider
- The marrying kind?
- A person authorized to conduct religious worship
- Only the rose-colored starlings
- In some classifications considered a separate genus
- Spiritual overseer
- Church leader
- Loser to Joe Louis: Sept. 1939
- Clergyman
- Loser to Louis: Sept. 1939
- Parish head
- A shepherd, originally
- Pulpit occupant
- Minister’s history uncovered more?
- Clergyman’s previous life with ordinary soldiers
- Clergyman to go off with fool to the north
- Shepherd almost over hill
- Former old king’s minister
- Father John, perhaps an alternative minister
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pastor \Pas"tor\, n. [L., fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. Cf. Pabulum, Pasture, Food.]
A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.
(Zo["o]l.) A species of starling ( Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), "shepherd," also "spiritual guide, shepherd of souls," from Old French pastor, pastur "herdsman, shepherd" (12c.), from Latin pastorem (nominative pastor) "shepherd," from pastus, past participle of pascere "to lead to pasture, set to grazing, cause to eat," from PIE root *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, feed, guard, protect" (see food). The spiritual sense was in Church Latin (e.g. Gregory's "Cura Pastoralis"). The verb in the Christian sense is from 1872.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals. 2 Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people 3 A Muslim imam 4 A minister or a priest in a Christian church. vb. (context Christianity English) To serve a congregation as #Noun
WordNet
Wikipedia
A pastor ( UK: ; US: ) is usually an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, the term may be abbreviated to "Pr" (singular) or "Ps" (plural). A pastor also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation.
Pastor or Pastore is an occupational surname for the profession of a religious (usually Christian) pastor and the profession of a shepherd pastor. Notable people with the surname include:
- Affonso Celso Pastore (born 1939), Brazilian economist; past president of the Brazilian Central Bank
- Amy Wynn Pastor (born 1976), American reality show performer
- Aurelio Pastor (contemporary), Peruvian politician and congressman
- Donna Pastore (contemporary), American professor; past president of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport
- Ed Pastor (born 1943), American politician from Arizona; U.S. representative
- Ernesto Pastor (1892–1921), Puerto Rican bullfighter
- Facundo Pastor, Argentine radio journalist
- Frank Pastor (born 1957), (East) German footballer
- Frank Pastore (born 1957), American professional baseball player
- George Pastor (born 1963), American professional soccer player
- Gildo Pastor (1910-1990), Monegasque businessman and property developer.
- Gildo Pallanca Pastor (born 1967), Monegasque businessman, CEO and owner of Venturi Automobiles
- Hélène Pastor (1937-2014), heiress and businesswoman from Monaco.
- Javier Pastore (born 1989), Argentine professional association football player
- John O. Pastore (1907–2000), American politician from Rhode Island; U.S. Senator 1950–76; Close friend to John F. Kennedy
- Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), German historian and diplomat for Austria
- Mauro Pastore (born 1967), Italian designer
- Michel Pastor (1944-2014), businessman and art collector from Monaco.
- Nick Pastore (contemporary), American law enforcement officer from New Haven, Connecticut
- Paco Cabanes Pastor (born 1954), Spanish professional Valencian pilota player
- Robert Pastor (born 1947), American scholar; national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter
- Rosana Pastor (born 1960), Spanish actress
- Thierry Pastor (born 1960), French singer
- Tony Pastor (1907–1969), Italian-American singer and saxophonist
- Tony Pastor (1837–1908), American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner
- Toon Pastor (born 1929), Netherlands Olympic boxer
- Vincent Pastore (born 1946), American film and television actor
Usage examples of "pastor".
The sobs which interrupted the short and simple allocution which the pastor made to his flock overcame him so much that he stopped and said no more, except to invite all present to fervent prayer.
That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.
Her sensations probably resolved themselves into an excess of admiration for the pastor in his new character of a denouncer of detected guilt and champion of imperiled innocence, added to which was a vague desire to lanch her own anathema maranatha at Royston Keene.
The members of session were highly offended that any member of the church should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire, and therefore ordered him to be cited to appear before them the following day.
I called in a couple of my Pentecostal pastor friends and asked what the real problem was.
We dined merrily together, then we played at cards, and in the evening we finished reading the Pastor Fido.
Pastor Chabrand spoke with much feeling on the influence of the Holy Spirit, the gradual operation of the Spirit in the secret of the soul, and the preciousness of dwelling in Christ, as the branch in the vine, in order to bear fruit.
Deacon, cordially shaking the proffered hand, while he accompanied his pastor to the street door.
The leaders of the Church Federation proposed an eminent divine, Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh.
The self-anointed pastor of the First Resurrectionist Maritime Assembly for God was skeptical.
Tubb was a man of over seventy, a devoted pastor with a gift of revivalist eloquence, but not generally considered very strong in the head.
Furst, Rosselmann the Pastor, Petermann the Sacrist, Kuoni the Shepherd, Werni the Huntsman, Ruodi the Fisherman, and five other countrymen, thirty-three in all, advance and take their places round the fire.
Moreover, the pastor at Us funeral had been an Anglican, not a Lutheran as was the minister who performed the final rites for the Spangler family.
Pastor Sweetwood rose to tell us of the fascinating things she was going to teach us to do.
Then, when Pastor Sweetwood announced they would both pass among us to be formally introduced, I stood and asked to be excused.