Usually means: Leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pope: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pope, pope: Merriam-Webster
  3. pope, pope, the Pope, the pope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pope: The Word Spy
  5. pope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. pope: Collins English Dictionary
  7. Pope, pope: Vocabulary.com
  8. Pope, pope: Wordnik
  9. pope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. Pope, pope: Wiktionary
  11. pope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pope: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pope: Dictionary.com
  15. Pope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pope (Prince song), Pope (disambiguation), Pope (word), Pope, The Pope (Tarot card), The Pope, The pope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. Pope: Rhymezone
  21. pope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Pope, Pope: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pope: FreeDictionary.org
  25. pope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Pope, The pope: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. pope: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pope, The pope: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pope, The pope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The pope, pope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. POPE: Acronym Finder
  4. Pope: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pope, pope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pope (verb): Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
noun:  (by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
noun:  (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
noun:  (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
noun:  (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
noun:  (US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
noun:  (Coptic Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
noun:  (Christianity, historical, obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.
noun:  (British) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
noun:  (UK regional, Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Scotland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
noun:  (US regional) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
noun:  (rare) The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
verb:  (intransitive or with 'it') To act as or like a pope.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.
noun:  (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
noun:  (US, dialectal, obsolete) The whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus).
noun:  (US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
noun:  An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
noun:  A township in Fayette County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
noun:  A village in Panola County, Mississippi.
noun:  (Russian Orthodoxy) Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest. [(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of pope [(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.]

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