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Definition of Religious leader
1. Noun. Leader of a religious order.
Specialized synonyms: Ayatollah, Guru, Guru
Specialized synonyms: Mahdi, Al-hakim, Asanga, Joshua, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Khomeini, Ruholla Khomeini, Moon, Sun Myung Moon, Guru Nanak, Nanak, Charles Taze Russell, Russell, Elizabeth Seton, Mother Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, Seton, Isaac Mayer Wise, Wise, Stephen Samuel Wise, Wise, Brigham Young, Young
Definition of Religious leader
1. Noun. A religious leader is one who is recognised by a religious body as having some authority within that body. ¹
2. Noun. The leader of a religious order. ¹
3. Noun. In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, Cardinals, Bishops, and the Supreme Pontiff. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Leader
Literary usage of Religious leader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Review of the World (1917)
"A MONGOLIAN religious leader-AN OLD LAMA IN URGA Buddha whose debaucheries are
notorious throughout the length and breadth of the land. ..."
2. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"... useful, it seems hard to conceive, that the religious leader of the Jews,
because as a late- giver he could do without it, that therefore, as a divine, ..."
3. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Ojibwa children played at being curers but only through the choice of the manitos
did one become a religious leader. Parents helped their children to become ..."
4. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Ojibwa children played at being curers but only through the choice of the manitos
did one become a religious leader. Parents helped their children to become ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"religious teacher than to the doctor, we should be led to urge the importance of
the function of the religious leader as an interpreter to the physician, ..."
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