English Explanatory Dictionary

pope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  2. Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
  3. Any similar head of a religion.
  4. A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
  5. An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
  6. Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
  7. An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  8. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  9. Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  10. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
  11. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
  12. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
verb
  1. To act as or like a pope.
  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism.
noun
  1. Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
noun
  1. Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest.
noun
  1. The whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus).
  2. The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
name
  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
  4. A township in Fayette County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
  6. A village in Panola County, Mississippi.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of pope.

Pronunciation

pōp /pəʊp/ /poʊp/ en-us-pope.ogg

Word forms

pope popes poping poped

Etymology

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

Synonyms

Bishop of Rome Patriarch of Rome Vicar of Christ Bishop of Alexandria Patriarch of Alexandria Guy Fawkes Day their respective entries Orthodox Bishop of Alexandria

Related words

papal popess papess papacy papist antipope Alexander Pope English poet

Derived words

antipope Black Pope dispope does the Pope shit in the woods? do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope is the Pope Catholic? popeable pope-bulled pope-burning Pope catholic pope-conjurer pope-consecrated Pope Day popedom pope-fly pope-given pope hat popehead pope-holy popehood pope-horn pope Joan Pope John Pope-king popeless popelike popeling popely popemobile Pope Night Pope of Fools pope pleasing pope-powdered pope-prompted pope-rid popery pope's eye Pope's-hat popeship Pope's Knight pope's living room pope's-milk pope's nose Pope-trumpery pope worshipper popish popism popist protopope Red Pope unpope White Pope Wope Popean Pope County Popeiana

Translations

Afrikaans: pous Albanian: papë Arabic: بَابَا Arabic: حَبْر أَعْظَم Arabic: حَبْر Aragonese: papa Armenian: պապ Armenian: Հռոմի պապ Asturian: papa Azerbaijani: papa Azerbaijani: Roma papası Belarusian: па́па ры́мскі Belarusian: па́па Bengali: ধর্মযাজক Bulgarian: па́па Bulgarian: па́па Ри́мски Burmese: ပုပ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး Catalan: Papa Chinese Cantonese: 教皇 Chinese Cantonese: 教宗 Hakka Chinese: 教宗 Chinese: 教皇 Chinese: 教宗 Chinese Mandarin: 教皇 Chinese Mandarin: 教宗 Chinese Mandarin: 羅馬教宗 /罗马教宗 Czech: papež Danish: pave Dutch: paus Esperanto: papo Estonian: paavst Extremaduran: papa Faroese: pávi Finnish: paavi French: pape French: papesse Middle French: pappe Galician: papa Georgian: პაპი Georgian: რომის პაპი German: Papst German: Päpstin Bavarian German: Papst Greek: πάπας Gujarati: પાપા Gujarati: પોપ Gujarati: ધર્મગુરુ Haitian Creole: pap Hebrew: אפיפיור \ אַפִּיפְיוֹר Hindi: पोप Hungarian: pápa Icelandic: páfi Ido: papo Indonesian: paus Irish: pápa
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