Word.ws English Dictionary

archprimate

archprimate noun: the chief primate of a Christian church.

Noun

archprimate (plural archprimates)

  1. The chief primate of a Christian church.
    • For the peace and good of the church is not terminated in the schismless estate of one or two kingdoms, but should be provided for by the joint consultation of all reformed Christendom, that all controversy may end in the final pronounce or canon of one archprimate or protestant pope.1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church Government, Urged Against Prelaty, Book I, Ch. VI

Forms of archprimate

pluralarchprimates

Origin of archprimate

From arch- + primate.

Questions about archprimate

What does archprimate mean?
Archprimate means the chief primate of a Christian church.
What part of speech is archprimate?
Archprimate is a noun.
What is the plural of archprimate?
The plural of archprimate is archprimates.

Words near archprimate in the dictionary

  1. archpriest
  2. archpriesthood
  3. archpriesthoods
  4. archpriestly
  5. archpriests
  6. archprimate
  7. archprimates
  8. archprince
  9. archprinces
  10. archprincess
  11. archprincesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: archprimate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “archprimate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/archprimate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.