Dictionary

high priest en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
2. In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses. See Kohen Gadol.
3. Jesus Christ.
4. (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
   • Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
5. (figuratively) A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
   • He perorated in a distinctly disturbed, and disturbing, manner, at least for a CIA high priest: “Technology is moving faster than government or law can keep up. It’s moving faster … than you can keep up: you should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data.” 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
   • The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention. 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
   • The high priest of US arms controllers 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 172:
6. A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.

Forms

Coordinates

high priestess

Deriveds

highpriesthood · high-priestly · highpriestship · highpriestly

Relateds

high church · High Mass

Synonyms

abbot · godi · chief priest · head priest · archbishop · volkhv · Kohen Gadol · mahant · Jewish high priest

Translations (61)

pdt Huagapriesta (high clergyman) · he כהן גדול (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · sh glavni žrec (high clergyman) · gv ard-saggyrt (high clergyman) · hu főpap (high clergyman) · got 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌾𐌰 (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · ja 住職 (high clergyman) · uga 𐎗𐎁 𐎋𐎅𐎐 (high clergyman) · pdt Huagepriesta (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · fi ylipappi (high clergyman) · la antistes (high clergyman) · fr Grand Prêtre (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · ru первосвяще́нник (office in Mormonism) · bg върхо́вен жрец (high clergyman) · fr Grand-prêtre (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · ru первосвяще́нник (high clergyman) · fi ylipappi (office in Mormonism) · yue 大祭司 (high clergyman) · sh главни жрец (high clergyman) · ru первосвященник (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · cmn 儒生 (high clergyman) · pt sumo sacerdote (high clergyman) · cop ⲁⲣⲭⲓⲉⲣⲉⲩⲥ (high clergyman) · hi महान्त (high clergyman) · pl arcykapłan (high clergyman) · it sommo sacerdote (high clergyman) · fr souverain sacrificateur (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · sh glavni sveštenik (high clergyman) · es sumo sacerdote (high clergyman) · cmn 大祭司 (high clergyman) · akk 𒂗 (high clergyman) · bg първосвеще́ник (high clergyman) · de Hoherpriester (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · fr grand-prêtre (high clergyman) · eo ĉefpastro (high clergyman) · fi auktoriteetti (powerful person, authority) · sh главни свештеник (high clergyman) · grc ἀρχιερεύς (high clergyman) · nl hogepriester (high clergyman) · ro mare preot (high clergyman) · ru волхв (high clergyman) · ga uachtarán na sagart (high clergyman) · mk првосвештеник (high clergyman) · egy nTr-Hm-tp*p:y (high clergyman) · sw Kuhani Mkuu (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · ja 宮司 (high clergyman) · esu allgiliyaq (high clergyman) · grc ἀρχιερεύς (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · fr grand prêtre (high clergyman) · ga ardsagart (high clergyman) · th มหาปุโรหิต (high clergyman) · la pontifex (high clergyman) · pl arcykapłan (office in Mormonism) · ja 大祭司 (high clergyman) · it sommo sacerdote (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · ms paderi tinggi (high clergyman) · de Hohepriester (high clergyman) · nl Hogepriester (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · mk првосвештеник (office in Mormonism) · fi ylipappi (Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice) · fi guru (powerful person, authority)