Word.ws English Dictionary

presbytership

presbytership noun: the office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Noun

presbytership (plural presbyterships)

  1. The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Forms of presbytership

pluralpresbyterships

Origin of presbytership

From presbyter + -ship. Piecewise doublet of priestship.

Questions about presbytership

What does presbytership mean?
Presbytership means the office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
What part of speech is presbytership?
Presbytership is a noun.
What is the plural of presbytership?
The plural of presbytership is presbyterships.

Words near presbytership in the dictionary

  1. Presbyterians
  2. presbyteries
  3. Presbyterism
  4. presbyterium
  5. presbyters
  6. presbytership
  7. presbyterships
  8. presbytery
  9. presbytes
  10. presbytia
  11. presbytic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: presbytership (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: “presbytership.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/presbytership. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.