PRESTER

Definition: PRESTER

PRESTER

Noun

1. A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.

2. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

3. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PRESTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imagination	Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: PRESTER

Specialty definitions using "PRESTER": Boast of England ♦ Prester John. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Model Murder: A Jack Prester Mystery (Thorndike Large Print Christian Mystery) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Death Valley: A Jack Prester Mystery (reference) Murder on the Mount: The Third Jack Prester Mystery (Thorndike Large Print Christian Mystery) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Prester John (reference) Prester John: The Mongols and the Ten Lost Tribes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"PRESTER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRESTER" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	10	111,207

The following table summarizes the usage of "PRESTER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Prester	Last name	130	61,052
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "PRESTER": presterilize, presterilized, presterilizes, presterilizing, presters. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: perter, pester, peters, preset, rester, terser.
	-2 letters: ester, peers, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, reest, reset, serer, speer, spree, steep, steer, stere, strep, terse, trees.
	-3 letters: errs, erst, peer, pees, pert, pest, pets, pree, rees, reps, rest, rete, rets, seep, seer, sept, sere, step, tees, tree.
	-4 letters: ere, err, ers, pee, per, pes, pet.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: perverts, pesterer, presters, taperers.
	+2 letters: apertures, exporters, palterers, parterres, patterers, peripters, perorates, persister, pesterers, pewterers, plasterer, portieres, potterers, preerects, presbyter, presenter, presorted, prestress, prestrike, preterits, pretreats, properest, protester, putterers, recarpets, receptors, reexports, repartees, repeaters, repenters, replaster, reporters, represent, rerepeats, respecter, retempers, sputterer, tamperers, temperers, threapers.
	+3 letters: carpenters, departures, enraptures, enterprise, excerpters, excerptors, ferrotypes, interposer, interprets, parameters, parrakeets, perborates, perfecters, perforates, perimeters, permitters, persecutor, persisters, perversity, perverters, plasterers, porterages, portresses, poulterers, precentors, preceptors, preemptors, preharvest, preheaters, prelatures, prematures, presbyters, presbytery, presenters, prestorage, pretenders, preterites, pretermits, preventers, priestlier, printeries, privateers, procreates, profiteers, properties, protesters, pyrometers, ratepayers, recaptures, reoperates, repatterns, replasters, reportages, represents, reprinters, reprobates, resorptive, respecters, resprouted, retrospect, rinderpest, sperrylite, spirometer, splutterer, sputterers, superstore, tetraspore, trespasser, trumperies, trumpeters.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.