Pope
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pope1
▶noun
- 1 (the Pope) the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
■ the head of the Coptic Church, the Patriarch of Alexandria.
- 2 another term for ruffe.
– phrases
is the Pope (a) Catholic? informal used to indicate that something is blatantly obvious.
is the Pope (a) Catholic? informal used to indicate that something is blatantly obvious.
– derivatives
popedom noun.
popedom noun.
– origin OE, via eccles. L. from eccles. Gk papas ‘bishop, patriarch’, var. of Gk pappas ‘father’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pope2
▶noun a parish priest of the Orthodox Church in Russia and the Balkans.
– origin C17: from Russ. pop, from Old Church Slavonic popŭ.
'Pope' also found in these Oxford entries:
annates
- antipope
- apostolic
- beatification
- breve
- brief
- cardinal
- Church of England
- conclave
- consistory
- demarcation
- Doctor of the Church
- encyclical
- ex cathedra
- familiar
- Ghibelline
- Gregorian calendar
- Guelph
- holiness
- Holy Father
- indulgence
- indult
- infallibility
- legate
- magisterium
- monitory
- pallium
- papacy
- papal
- patriarch
- Peter's pence
- Petrine
- Pontifex Maximus
- pontiff
- pontifical
- pontificate
- pope
- pope
- pope's eye
- pope's nose
- preconize
- pro-nuncio
- rescript
- reservation
- Roman Catholic Church
- temporal power
- tiara
- Vatican
- vicegerent
- zucchetto
