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–noun

1.	a minister or priest in charge of a church.

2.	a person having spiritual care of a number of persons.

3.	Ornithology. any of various starlings, esp. Sturnus roseus (rosy pastor) of Europe and Asia.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to serve as the pastor of: He pastored the church here for many years.

[Origin: 1325–75; < L pāstor shepherd, lit., feeder, equiv. to pās-, base of pāscere to put to pasture, feed + -tor -tor; r. ME pastour < AF

]

—Related forms

pas·tor·less, adjective

pas·tor·like, pas·tor·ly, adjective

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pas·tor Audio Help (pās'tər) Pronunciation Key
n.

A Christian minister or priest having spiritual charge over a congregation or other group.
A layperson having spiritual charge over a person or group.
A shepherd.

tr.v. pas·tored, pas·tor·ing, pas·tors
To serve or act as pastor of.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pāstor, shepherd; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]

pas'tor·ship' n.

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pastor (n.)

1242, "shepherd," also "spiritual guide, shepherd of souls" (1377), from O.Fr. pastur "herdsman, shepherd" (12c.), from L. pastorem (nom. pastor) "shepherd," from pastus, pp. of pascere "to lead to pasture, graze," from PIE base *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, feed, guard" (see food). The spiritual sense was in Church L. (cf. Gregory's "Cura Pastoralis"). The verb in the Christian sense is from 1872.

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pastor
noun
1.	a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches" [syn: curate]
2.	only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

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pastor [ˈpaːstə] noun

a minister of religion, especially of the Protestant church

Arabic:	قِسّيس، راعي كنيسَه
Chinese (Simplified):	牧师
Chinese (Traditional):	牧師
Czech:	pastor
Danish:	præst; pastor
Dutch:	dominee
Estonian:	pastor
Finnish:	pastori
French:	pasteur
German:	der Pfarrer
Greek:	πάστορας
Hungarian:	lelkipásztor
Icelandic:	(sóknar)prestur
Indonesian:	pendeta
Italian:	pastore

Japanese:	牧師
Korean:	목사
Latvian:	mācītājs
Lithuanian:	pastorius
Norwegian:	prest
Polish:	pastor
Portuguese (Brazil):	pastor
Portuguese (Portugal):	pastor
Romanian:	pastor
Russian:	пастор
Slovak:	pastor
Slovenian:	pastor
Spanish:	pastor
Swedish:	präst, pastor
Turkish:	papaz

See also: pastoral

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
pastor

In some groups of Christians, the clergyman in charge of an individual congregation. The term is used this way in the Lutheran Church and Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, by Baptists and in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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Pastor

Lo"cust\, n. [L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. Lobster.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acridid[ae], allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

Note: These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See Cicada.

Locust beetle (Zo["o]l.), a longicorn beetle (Cyllene robini[ae]), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also locust borer.

Locust bird (Zo["o]l.) the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See Pastor.

Locust hunter (Zo["o]l.), an African bird; the beefeater.

2. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

Locust bean (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree.

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