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Plural of pastor

regular plural

The plural of pastor is pastors.

Forms of pastor

Singularpastor /ˈpɑː.stə/
Pluralpastors
Countablecountable

Pastors in a sentence

  • Most pastors at Promised Land also have full-time jobs outside the church, pastor Diane Carrow said.2020 May 5, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “One south Bronx church has seen 13 coronavirus deaths”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry hop on
  • The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4).2012 July, Emeka C. Ekeke, “Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians in the Roman Empire from AD54 to 100: A Lesson for the 21st Century…. From the entry Wancheng
  • By then, hundreds of pastors, priests, and rabbis were routinely distributing their sermons via iTunes in a phenomenon someone dubbed "godcasting."2006, Steven Levy, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry godcasting
  • Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.1997, Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities ..., page 119. From the entry church
  • There was little consensus about the degree of informity on religious beliefs, and again pastors rated the patient lower.1965, The Journal of Pastoral Care - Volumes 19-20, page 152. From the entry informity

Meaning of pastor

  1. noun Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
  2. noun A minister or priest in a church.
  3. noun The main priest serving a parish.

Full definition of pastor

Questions about the plural of pastor

What is the plural of pastor?
The plural of pastor is pastors.
Is pastor countable?
Pastor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pastor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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