Meaning

3 senses
  1. A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

    Priesterin

    свяще́нницаsvjaščénnica, жри́цаžríca, попадья́popadʹjá

    свяще́ницяsvjaščénycja, жри́цяžrýcja

  2. (slur, uncommon)A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.

  3. (colloquial, obsolete)A priest’s wife.

    попадья́popadʹjá, ма́тушкаmátuška

    попадя́popadjá

    a woman priest

Examples

10 sentences
  1. She's a priestess.

    Вона священниця.

    deSie ist Priesterin.

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  2. Don't make fun of the voodoo priestess.

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  3. Tom believed that the priestess's prayers had healed him.

    deTom glaubte, dass die Gebete der Priesterin ihn geheilt hatten.

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  4. The serpent-god's image is carried in an annual procession by a celibate priestess.

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  5. His mother is a priestess.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
woman with religious duties:
priest’s wife:
Русский
By meaning 2
woman with religious duties:
priest’s wife:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
woman with religious duties:

Origin

From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet o

From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”). Piecewise doublet of presbyteress.

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