Usually means: Sacred office of religious leaders.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word priesthood:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. priesthood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. priesthood, the priesthood: Merriam-Webster
  3. priesthood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. priesthood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. priesthood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. priesthood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Priesthood, priesthood: Wordnik
  8. the priesthood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. priesthood: Wiktionary
  10. priesthood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. priesthood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Priesthood, priesthood: Dictionary.com
  13. priesthood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Priesthood (Ancient Israel), Priesthood (Catholic Church), Priesthood (Community of Christ), Priesthood (Eastern Orthodox Church), Priesthood (LDS Church), Priesthood (Latter Day Saints), Priesthood (Orthodox Church), Priesthood (album), Priesthood (ancient Israel), Priesthood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Priesthood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. priesthood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. priesthood: Rhymezone
  18. Priesthood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. priesthood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. priesthood: FreeDictionary.org
  21. priesthood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. priesthood: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. priesthood: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Priesthood: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Priesthood: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The role or office of a priest.
noun:  Priests as a group; the clergy.
noun:  Authority to act in the name of God or the divine in general.

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