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religious leaders

religious leaders is the plural of religious leader.

Meaning of religious leader

Noun

religious leader (plural religious leaders)

  1. 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
  2. The leader of a religious order.
  3. In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.

Questions about religious leaders

What is religious leaders the plural of?
Religious leaders is the plural of religious leader.

Words near religious leaders in the dictionary

  1. religious humanist
  2. religious humanists
  3. religious institute
  4. religious institutes
  5. religious leader
  6. religious leaders
  7. religious liberty
  8. religious naturalism
  9. religious naturalist
  10. religious naturalists
  11. religious none

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