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priestess

  • noun
  • /ˈpriːstɛs/

A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

Other meanings

  1. A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.

  2. A priest’s wife.

Related words

  • priestessly
  • high priestess
  • priestess of Venus
  • priestesshood
  • priestesslike

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “priestess” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.