religious leader
religious leader noun: someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
Noun
religious leader (plural religious leaders)
- Someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
- A group of religious leaders in Somaliland is behind an attempt to replace a progressive sexual offences law passed in 2018 with a revised version that protects rapists rather than survivors and allows child marriage.2022 August 19, Yousef Timacade, “Religious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape law”, in openDemocracy, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022
- The leader of a religious order.
- In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.
religious leader meaning in Marathi
religious leader in Marathi
- religious leader
- बुवा buvā
Forms of religious leader
| plural | religious leaders |
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Questions about religious leader
- What does religious leader mean?
- Religious leader means someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
- What is religious leader in Marathi?
- Religious leader in Marathi is बुवा (buvā). See Religious leader meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is religious leader?
- Religious leader is a noun.
- What is the plural of religious leader?
- The plural of religious leader is religious leaders.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: religious leader (page history and authors); बुवा (Marathi) (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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