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Plural of rector

regular plural

The plural of rector is rectors.

Forms of rector

Singularrector /ˈɹɛktɚ/
Pluralrectors
Countablecountable

Rectors in a sentence

  • Bishops demissionary served as rectors of several churches.From the entry demissionary
  • The same usually applied to the thousands of modest glebe farms belonging to rectors.2016, Bruce M[ortimer] S[tanley] Campbell, “Efflorescence: The Enabling Environment and the Rise of Latin Christendom”, in The Great…. From the entry glebe farm

Meaning of rector

  1. noun In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
  2. noun In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
  3. noun A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.

Full definition of rector

Questions about the plural of rector

What is the plural of rector?
The plural of rector is rectors.
Is rector countable?
Rector is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rector (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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