pope
pope Lexical Profile
pope Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The Bishop of Rome as the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
"Thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square to hear the pope deliver his annual blessing."
The Patriarch of Alexandria and supreme spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
"The Coptic pope presided over the liturgy at the cathedral in Cairo."
A person regarded as having supreme, unquestioned, or infallible authority in a particular field or movement.
"Critics often referred to the influential writer André Breton as the pope of Surrealism."
British The ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua), a small freshwater fish of the perch family (Percidae) native to temperate Eurasia, characterized by spiny dorsal fins and mottled brownish scales.
"The angler reeled in a small pope while fishing along the slow-moving canal."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English pāpa, via Ecclesiastical Latin papa ('bishop' or 'pope'), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, 'father'), an affectionate title originally used for eastern bishops and patriarchs before becoming reserved in the West for the Bishop of Rome.