English noun: pastor |
1. | pastor (person) a person authorized to conduct religious worship |
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| Samples | Clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches.
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| Synonyms | curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, rector |
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| Broader (hypernym) | clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ministrant |
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2. | Pastor (animal) only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus |
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| Synonyms | subgenus Pastor |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bird genus |
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| Member holonym | Pastor roseus, Pastor sturnus, rose-colored pastor, rose-colored starling |
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| Member meronym | genus Sturnus, Sturnus |
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