Pope (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. (in the early Christian church) a bishop.
  3. a person considered as having or assuming authority or a position similar to that of the Roman Catholic pope.
  4. the title of the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
  5. Eastern Church.
    • the Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.
    • (in certain churches) a parish priest.
noun
  1. English poet.
  2. Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  3. U.S. architect.
noun
  1. Pueblo medicine man: led rebellion against the Spanish 1680.
noun
  1. the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church
  2. Eastern Orthodox Church
    • a title sometimes given to a parish priest
    • a title sometimes given to the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
  3. a person assuming or having a status or authority resembling that of a pope
noun
  1. another name for ruffe
noun
  1. Alexander. 1688–1744, English poet, regarded as the most brilliant satirist of the Augustan period, esp with his Imitations of Horace (1733–38). His technical virtuosity is most evident in The Rape of the Lock (1712–14). Other works include The Dunciad (1728; 1742), the Moral Essays (1731–35), and An Essay on Man (1733–34)
Pope (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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