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ministre

ministre is the obsolete form of minister.

Meaning of minister

Noun

minister (plural ministers)

  1. A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
    • The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.
  2. A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
  3. A politician who heads a ministry
    • He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.
    Synonyms:
    government minister
  4. In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  5. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
    • […], I choſe / Camillo for the miniſter, to poyſon / My friend Polixenes: […]c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Forms of ministre

Noun
pluralministres
Verb
third-person singular presentministres
present participleministring
past participleministred
pastministred

Questions about ministre

What is ministre the obsolete form of?
Ministre is the obsolete form of minister.

Words near ministre in the dictionary

  1. ministrating
  2. ministration
  3. ministrational
  4. ministrations
  5. ministrative
  6. ministre
  7. ministred
  8. ministres
  9. ministress
  10. ministresses
  11. ministries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ministre (page history and authors); minister (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.

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