aerie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
aperient | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
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archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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arietta | (noun) a short aria | Synonyms: short aria |
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arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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bacteriemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriaemia |
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barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
(noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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brief | (noun) a condensed written summary or abstract | - |
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(noun) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | Synonyms: legal brief |
briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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(noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
briefs | (noun) (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts) | Synonyms: Jockey shorts |
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brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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(noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
(noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
(noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
(noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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caries | (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: cavity, dental caries, tooth decay |
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carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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(noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
(noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
(noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
(noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
(noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
(noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
(noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
(noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
(noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
(noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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congeries | (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, conglomeration |
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contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
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corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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coterie | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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(noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
(noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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(noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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(noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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(noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
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(noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
(noun) an event as apprehended | - |
eyrie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyry |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyry |
faerie | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faery, fairyland |
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(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faery, fairy, fay, sprite |
farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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friend | (noun) a person you know well and regard with affection and trust | - |
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(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: acquaintance |
(noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: ally |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter |
friendlessness | (noun) being without friends | - |
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friendliness | (noun) a friendly disposition | - |
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(noun) a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company | - |
friendly | (noun) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces | - |
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friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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frier | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, fryer, fryolator |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: fryer, pullet |
fries | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries |
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frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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(noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
furrier | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: cloakmaker |
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gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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(noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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(noun) any female friend | - |
greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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(noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
(noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
hurriedness | (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurry, precipitation |
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impropriety | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, indecorum, liberty |
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(noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: indecency |
(noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: improperness |
(noun) the condition of being improper | - |
inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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married | (noun) a person who is married | - |
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materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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(noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | Synonyms: ill fame |
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nutrient | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
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(noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
oriel | (noun) a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall | Synonyms: oriel window |
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orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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orientation | (noun) the act of orienting | - |
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(noun) a course introducing a new situation or environment | Synonyms: orientation course |
(noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
(noun) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | - |
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: predilection, preference |
(noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | - |
ovariectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries | Synonyms: oophorectomy |
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paries | (noun) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure | Synonyms: wall |
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parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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priest | (noun) a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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(noun) a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion | Synonyms: non-Christian priest |
priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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(noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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