pastors

[pas-ter, pah-ster]

pas·tor

[pas-ter, pah-ster]
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, especially 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.

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Pastors is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

Origin:
1325–75; < Latin pāstor shepherd, literally, feeder, equivalent to pās-, base of pāscere to put to pasture, feed + -tor -tor; replacing Middle English pastour < Anglo-French

pas·tor·less, adjective
pas·tor·like, pas·tor·ly, adjective
sub·pas·tor, noun

clergy, cleric, imam, minister, pastor, priest, rabbi.
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