pope

  • 51pope — [OE] Etymologically, the pope is the ‘daddy’ of the Roman Catholic church. Greek páppas was a nursery word for ‘father’, based no doubt on the first syllable of patér ‘father’ (a relative of English father). In the form pápas it came to be used… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 52pope — s. persona importante. ❙ «Por ejemplo, Bloom, que es un pope de la crítica literaria...» La vida según..., TVE1, 24.9.95, RAE CREA. ❙ «...pero es sabido que el gran pope del surrealismo ya andaba chocheando...» ABC Cultural, 30.8.96. ❙ ▄▀ «Ése… …

    Diccionario del Argot "El Sohez"

  • 53pope — [[t]po͟ʊp[/t]] popes N COUNT: usu the N; N TITLE The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church. The highlight of the Pope s visit will be his message to the people. ...Pope John Paul II. Syn: Pontiff …

    English dictionary

  • 54Pope — UK [pəʊp] / US [poʊp] noun [countable] Word forms Pope : singular Pope plural Popes the leader of the Roman Catholic Church • is the Pope (a) Catholic? humorous used for saying yes very definitely as the answer to a question …

    English dictionary

  • 55pope — [OE] Etymologically, the pope is the ‘daddy’ of the Roman Catholic church. Greek páppas was a nursery word for ‘father’, based no doubt on the first syllable of patér ‘father’ (a relative of English father). In the form pápas it came to be used… …

    Word origins

  • 56Pope — He is the Patriarch, the believers spiritual father. The title pope has been in use in the Egyptian church from the beginning of the third century. In Rome its use began in the second half of the fourth century. From the sixth century, it was… …

    Dictionary of church terms

  • 57pope — (Del ruso pop, sacerdote.) ► sustantivo masculino RELIGIÓN Sacerdote de las iglesias ortodoxas. * * * pope (del ruso «pop», sacerdote) 1 m. *Sacerdote de la iglesia cismática griega. 2 Persona muy influyente en una organización. * * * pope. (Del… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 58POPE —    (i. e. Papa), a title originally given to all bishops of the Church, and eventually appropriated by Leo the Great, the bishop of Rome, as the supreme pontiff in 449, a claim which in 1054 created the Great Schism, and which asserted itself… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 59pope — pope1 noun 1》 (the Pope) the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.     ↘the head of the Coptic Church, the Patriarch of Alexandria. 2》 another term for ruffe. Phrases is the Pope (a) Catholic? informal used to indicate that… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 60pope — Puffin Puf fin (p[u^]f f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) An arctic sea bird {Fratercula arctica}) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; called also {bottle nose}, {cockandy}, {coulterneb}, {marrot} …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English