Usually means: Chess piece moves diagonally only.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bishop, bishop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bishop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bishop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bishop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bishop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bishop, bishop: Wordnik
  7. bishop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bishop, bishop: Wiktionary
  9. bishop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bishop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bishop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bishop: Dictionary.com
  13. bishop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bishop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bishop (Alien), Bishop (Aliens), Bishop (American band), Bishop (Catholic Church), Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Church), Bishop (LDS Church), Bishop (Latter Day Saints), Bishop (Methodism), Bishop (Orthodox Church), Bishop (United Methodist), Bishop (artillery), Bishop (chess), Bishop (comics), Bishop (disambiguation), Bishop (surname), Bishop, The Bishop (Monty Python), The Bishop (short story), The Bishop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bishop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bishop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bishop: Rhymezone
  19. bishop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bishop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BISHOP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. bishop: Free Dictionary
  23. bishop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bishop: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bishop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Bishop(Wizardry Character class), Bishop (Wizardry character class), Bishop: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bishop(Wizardry Character class), Bishop (Wizardry character class), bishop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bishop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  4. bishop: Idioms

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bishop: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Bishop: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bishop: Chess Dictionary

(Note: See bishoping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
noun:  (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
noun:  (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
noun:  A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
noun:  (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
noun:  Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
noun:  (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
noun:  A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
noun:  A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
noun:  (US, archaic) A bustle.
noun:  (UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
verb:  (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
verb:  (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
verb:  (Christianity) To make a bishop.
verb:  (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
verb:  (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
verb:  (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
verb:  (UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
noun:  (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  A city in Inyo County, California; named for nearby Bishop Creek, itself named for early settler Samuel Addison Bishop.
noun:  A city in Texas; named for landowner F. Z. Bishop.
noun:  A town in Georgia; named for local landowner W. H. Bishop.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Illinois; named for landowner Henry Bishop.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Maryland.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Virginia and West Virginia.
noun:  A ghost town in Washington; named for two early settlers.
noun:  A self-propelled 25-pounder vehicle produced by the United Kingdom during World War II, so called from a supposed resemblance to a bishop's miter.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of bishop, particularly as a title or term of address. [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.]

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