Thesaurus: pope

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1. n. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
2. n. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
3. n. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
4. n. A fish; the ruff.
5. n. the head of the Roman Catholic Church
6. A fish; the ruff. Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a roundboard with compartments.-- Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of thethigh of an ox or sheep. R. D. Blackmore.-- Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.
7. n:100 n. the head of the Roman Catholic Church n. English poet and satirist (1688-1744)