pastor

noun

1. (archaic)Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
2. (countable)Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
3. (US, countable)Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.

   “The pastor told CNN on Tuesday that no members of his megachurch have contracted the virus. MacArthur also said he doubted the accuracy of California’s coronavirus numbers. […] Most of the pastors who have bucked the rules are fringe figures in American Christianity.”

4. A bird, the rosy starling.

   “Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.”

verb

1. (ambitransitive, stative)To serve a congregation as pastor

   “As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.”

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation.

   ““A joyride gone terribly wrong,” Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said during a news conference in Steilacoom, which is about 3 miles from the island.”