Usually means: Official authorized to conduct religious services.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word minister:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. minister: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. minister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. minister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. minister: Vocabulary.com
  6. MInister: Wordnik
  7. minister: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Minister (Christianity), Minister (diplomacy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Minister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. minister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. minister: Rhymezone
  12. Minister (m), minister, minister (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. minister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. minister: Free Dictionary
  15. minister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. minister: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. minister: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  18. minister: Dictionary.com
  19. minister: Online Etymology Dictionary
  20. Minister (Catholic Church), Minister (religion): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  21. Minister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. minister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  23. The Minister, Minister (Austria): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. Minister, Minister, minister: Wordnik
  25. Minister (government): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. minister: Wordnik
  27. minister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  28. minister: Wiktionary
  29. minister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  30. minister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Minister (disambiguation), minister: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Minister (disambiguation), minister: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. minister: Idioms

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Minister: Easton Bible
  2. Minister: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Minister: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. MINISTER: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See ministered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
noun:  (government) A politician who heads a ministry
noun:  In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
noun:  A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
verb:  (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
verb:  (intransitive) To function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.

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