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præcentor

præcentor is the obsolete form of precentor.

Meaning of precentor

Noun

precentor (plural precentors)

  1. The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.

Forms of præcentor

pluralpræcentors

Questions about præcentor

What is præcentor the obsolete form of?
Præcentor is the obsolete form of precentor.

Words near præcentor in the dictionary

  1. præceded
  2. præcedent
  3. præcedents
  4. præcedes
  5. præceding
  6. præcentor
  7. præcentors
  8. præcentrix
  9. præcept
  10. præceptor
  11. præceptors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præcentor (page history and authors); precentor (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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