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Meaning of archbishop | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp

Definitions

  1. A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
  2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight
  3. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.

Equivalents

Afrikaans aartsbiskop
Azərbaycanca arxiyepiskop
Català arquebisbe
Čeština arcibiskup
Cymraeg archesgob
Dansk ærkebiskop
Deutsch Erzbischof
Ελληνικά αρχιεπίσκοπος
Esperanto ĉefepiskopo
Español arzobispo
Euskara artzapezpiku
Suomi arkkipiispa
Français archevêque
Gaeilge ardeaspag
Galego arcebispo
Magyar érsek
Íslenska erkibiskup
Italiano arcivescovo
日本語 大主教 大司教
한국어 대주교
Lëtzebuergesch Äerzbëschof
Lietuvių arkivyskupas
Latviešu arhibīskaps
Македонски архиепископ
Malti arċisqof
Nederlands aartsbisschop
Polski arcybiskup
Português arcebispo
Русский архиепископ
Slovenčina arcibiskup
Slovenščina nadškof
Српски архиепископ
Svenska ärkebiskop
Kiswahili askofu mkuu
Tagalog arsobispo
Türkçe başpiskopos
Українська архієпископ
Tiếng Việt tổng giám mục

Examples

“Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.”
“He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.”
“One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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