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Definition: Rector |
RectorNoun1. A person authorized to conduct religious worship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rector" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Rector (See Clerical Titles .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Public Administration | Head of the university (Internat. Enc. of Higher Educ. - the Netherlands'). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word rector has a number of different meanings.
In some countries, a Rector is the head of a university or school. At some universities he has the title of rector magnificus.
In Scotland, the position of Rector exists in the five "ancient" universities, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee. It is a post elected at regular intervals by the students of the individual universities the holder of which is entitled to chair meetings of the university court, the university's management body. They are not the head of the university as such, that post being held by the university's principal (or Vice-Chancellor) but never-the-less their position is of some influence in the running of their respective university.
In religion, a rector is a type of Anglican priest. In the Church of England, for historical reasons, some priests are the vicars and others are rectors. The rector directly receives the tithes of his parish, while the vicar does not, and is paid a salary by his diocese. In the Church of Ireland, all priests are rectors, not vicars.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rector."
Synonyms: RectorSynonyms: curate (n), minister (n), parson (n), pastor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch, hierarch; ebdomarius; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher. |
Director | Noun: director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rector |
| English words defined with "rector": Institutor ♦ Magnifico ♦ parsonage ♦ Rectoral, Rectorate, Rectoress, Rectorial, Rectorship, rectory ♦ vicarage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rector": 15677 ♦ 72461 ♦ Anthroposophus ♦ CLERGY MEMBER, Clerical Titles ♦ GLYNN, Gonville College, GREY PARSON ♦ Mistletoe Bough ♦ Peerage of the Apostles, Picatrix ♦ Shorne ♦ Zany. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rector": Prorector. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rector" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (rector), Latin (director, governor, guide, guider, leader, master, rector, ruler), Romanian (chancellor, president, provost, rector), Spanish (president, principal, provost, rector). |
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 | Dr. Med. Joseph Braun : k.k. Professor, Rector magnificus emerit. der k.k... / P.P.Kirchebner fecit 1839. Gedruckt v. Kravogl.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mrs. James Rector of Columbus, Ohio consulting with W.D. Jameson on the suffrage amendment in the Tennessee legislature, with Miss Anita Pollitzer of Charleston, S.C., and Miss Sue White of Nashville, Tenn.] / Service Photographic Co., Columbus, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Por la construccion del socialismo : ahora la universidad! : Eduardo Novoa, rector, Ricardo Lagos, sec. gral. ...Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cheers for the rector! Hurray! |
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Civil Liberties | Equatorial Guinea | In 2000 students at the National University wrote a letter to the rector complaining about their food and housing. (references) |
Venezuela | A group of students, reportedly aligned with the Government, occupied university buildings for over a month in an effort to force the Rector to resign. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The previous rector of West Mostar, Marko Tadic, was forced out of office in 2000 following his efforts to reform and depoliticize instruction and faculty appointments. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Supreme Court justices are elected by the Congress from a list submitted by the bar association, law school deans, a university rector, and appellate judges. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | According to press reports, in August 2000, members of the FARC killed a school rector in Meta department for criticizing the recruitment of his students. (references) |
Belarus | Revkov, who had already spent 19 months in a local pretrial detention cell, is the former deputy rector of the Gomel State Medical Institute, and Bandazhevsky is a former rector of the Institute. (references) | |
Minorities | Morocco | Press reports indicated that the rector of ICRAM would be Mohamed Chafik, the drafter of the Berber Manifesto. (references) |
Macedonia | Under the Framework Agreement, the Government committed to "provide for university level education in languages spoken by at least 20 percent of the population of Macedonia." On July 2, police detained Fadil Sulejmani, the rector of Tetovo University, the unofficial ethnic Albanian university, for questioning for several hours for inciting unrest; ethnic Albanians protested his arrest. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rector" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.45% of the time. "Rector" is used about 391 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 (singular) | 86.45% | 338 | 15,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.55% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Total | 100.00% | 391 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rector" 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 |
| Rector | Last name | 6,000 | 2,089 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Rector, AR (city, FIPS 58490) 2. Rector, PA |
Expression using "rector": lord rector. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rector": pro-rector, vice-rector. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hayden rector | 54 |
rector | 36 |
rector arkansas | 23 |
hayden realtor rector | 17 |
morse phillips rector | 16 |
rector russ | 7 |
robert rector | 6 |
hayden realty rector | 6 |
estate hayden real rector | 5 |
audi rector | 5 |
porsche rector | 5 |
rector pa | 5 |
rector pad | 4 |
collins marc rector | 3 |
rector motor | 3 |
food rector | 3 |
hayden kentucky lexington rector | 3 |
jeff rector | 3 |
rector knee pad | 3 |
morse phillip rector | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rector"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | prinsipaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rektor, famullitar (parson, vicar), drejtor (director, governor, impresario, manager, president, principal, warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاهن (cassock, clergyman, clerical, cohen, ecclesiastic, minister, parson, presbyter, priest, reverend, vicar), عميد الجامعة, خادم رعية, رئيس مدرسة, رئيس جامعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ректор (president, provost, warden), католически свещеник на училище, католически директор на училище, енорийски пастор, директор на училище (principal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 牧師 (chaplain, churchman, clergyman, parson, pastor, priest), 神父 (Chaplain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rektor (master), správce (administrator, bailiff, curator, keeper, manager, superintendent, warden), pastor anglikánské církve, ředitel školy (headmaster, schoolmaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rector (head, headmaster, headmistress, headteacher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | rektoro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیشوا (Headman, Leader, Primate, Van), کشیش بخش (Parson, Vicar), رهبر (Guide, Leader, Pilot, Premier(Re), Skipper), رءیس دانشگاه (Chancellor, President). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rehtori (headmaster, president, principal, vice-chancellor), kirkkoherra (parson, vicar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rector magnificus, recteur magnifique, recteur (rectorial), proviseur, pasteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rektor (headmaster, headteacher, master, principal, vice-chancellor, warden), pfarrer (chaplain, churchman, clergyman, father, minister, padre, parish priest, parson, parsons, pastor, priest, rectorship, Reverend, vicar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρύτανησ (chancellor, president), εφημέριοσ (chaplain, curare, ephemeral, parson, vicar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "קן, רקטור, שיא או יברסיט" (chancellor), 'י" (chancellor, commander, governor, leader, prince, ruler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rektor (president), plébános (curate-in-charge, incumbent, parish priest, parson, vicar), pap (clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, clerk in holy orders, ecclesiastic, minister, officiating minister, parson, Poppa, prelate, priest, rev.), igazgató (boss, dir, director, governing, head, manager, managing, principal, provost, warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rektor, kepala universitas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parroco (minister, parson, pastor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 学長に納まる (to take one's position as rector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がくちょうにおさまる (to take one's position as rector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교구 목사. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | reiltagh (according to rule, decisive, director, ordinal, president, regular, ruler, ruling), pesson. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | rèktòr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectorray reitor (parson's nose, provost). (various references) rector (chancellor, president, provost), preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, father, incumbent, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, Reverend, rook, vicar), pastor (parson, pastor), director (administrator, curator, directing, director, executive, governor, guiding, headmaster, manager, master, principal, steering, superior, warden). (various references) ректор (prexy, provost, warden), пастор (parson, pastor). (various references) rektor (president), pastor (dominie, parson, pastor), glavni paroh. (various references) rector (president, principal, provost). (various references) rektor (headmaster, headmistress, president, principal, principal teacher, provost, vice-chancellor), kyrkoherde (parson, pastor, vicar). (various references) rektör (chancellor, president, warden), mahalle papazı (incumbent, vicar), bölge papazı. (various references) rektor (r) (chancellor, president). (various references) ректор (president, provost), парафіяльний священик (vicar). (various references) rheithor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | rector. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rector": rectorate, rectorates, rectorial, rectories, rectors, rectorship, rectorships, rectory. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rector": codirector, corrector, director, erector, subdirector. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rector": codirectors, correctors, directorate, directorates, directorial, directories, directors, directorship, directorships, directory, erectors, subdirectors. (additional references) | |
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"Rector" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drector, jector, pector, ractor, raetor, rastor, reator, recator, recetor, recitor, reclor, recob, recog, recor, recore, recort, recro, recte, recteur, recti, rectom, recturn, Reggiori, rektor, Remtox, rentor, Restmor, retcon, Rextar, rhetor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rector" (pronounced re"kter) |
| 5 | r e" k t er | erector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | collector, connecter, connector, defector, detector, director, Hector, injector, inspector, lector, nectar, objector, projector, protector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: corer, crore, recto, retro. | |
-2 letters: cero, core, cote, rote, torc, tore, torr. | |
-3 letters: cor, cot, err, orc, ore, ort, rec, ret, roc, roe, rot, toe, tor. | |
-4 letters: er, et, oe, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: correct, courter, creator, crofter, erector, porrect, reactor, rectors, rectory. | |
+2 letters: cavorter, chortler, corrects, corsetry, courters, courtier, creators, creditor, cremator, crofters, director, erectors, reactors, receptor, redactor, reductor, rejector, retroact, rhetoric, rocketer, rocketry, secretor, torchere, torchier, tricorne, trouncer. | |
+3 letters: carrotier, cartopper, cavorters, chorister, chortlers, cocreator, comforter, contriver, converter, convertor, copartner, corporate, corrected, correcter, correctly, corrector, correlate, corrugate, corrupted, corrupter, costarred, courtiers, courtlier, couturier, coverture, creditors, cremators, crematory, criterion, crocheter, decorator, decretory, detractor, directors, directory, excerptor, excretory, execrator, extractor, forecourt, incorrect, intercrop, macerator, occurrent, oratrices, orchestra, overreact, overtrick, precatory, precentor, preceptor, predictor, procreant, procreate, proctored, projector, prosector, protector, raconteur, receptors, recontour, reconvert, recordist, recounter, rectorate, rectorial, rectories, redactors, reductors, refectory, reflector, refractor, rejectors, rencontre, retoucher, retractor, retroacts, retrocede, retrodict, retropack, rhetorics, rocketeer, rocketers, secretors, secretory, torcheres, torchiers, tricornes, trisector, trochlear, trouncers. | |
+4 letters: baroceptor, barometric, bioreactor, carburetor, carrotiest, cartoppers, celebrator, centromere, certiorari, charioteer, choristers, clearstory, clerestory, cocreators, codirector, cointerred, colporteur, comforters, concurrent, confronter, contraries, contrivers, controller, controvert, converters, convertors, cooperator, copartners, copromoter, copywriter, cordierite, corporeity, correctest, correcting, correction, corrective, correctors, correlated, correlates, correlator, corrugated, corrugates, corrupters, corruptest, corruptive, corsetiere, corsetries, cotransfer, countercry, couturiere, couturiers, covertures, crematoria, criterions, crocheters, crosstrees, decorators, descriptor, desecrator, detractors, eradicator, ergometric, escritoire, excerptors, execrators, extractors, forecaster, forecourts, hovercraft, intercrops, intercross, introducer, macerators, meritocrat, microliter, micrometer, noncurrent, nonreactor, occurrents, orchestral, orchestras, overdirect, overreacts, overstruck, overtricks, percolator, persecutor, precentors, preceptors, preceptory, preconcert, predictors, procaryote, procreated, procreates, procreator, projectors, prosectors, prosecutor, prospector, protectors, protectory, protracted, protreptic, pyrometric, quercitron, raconteurs, recontours, reconverts, recordists, recounters, recreation, rectorates, rectorship, redecorate, reflectors, refraction, refractors, refractory, rencontres, rencounter, replicator, retouchers, retraction, retractors, retroacted, retroceded, retrocedes, retrodicts, retropacks, retrospect, rhetorical, rocketeers, rocketries, tetrachord, threescore, tracheolar, trajectory, tricolored, trisectors, trochanter, trochlears, undercroft, watercolor. | |
+5 letters: accelerator, acrocentric, appreciator, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, arthroscope, astrometric, baroceptors, bioreactors, broadcaster, calorimeter, calorimetry, carburetion, carburetors, carburettor, catercorner, celebrators, celebratory, centerboard, centromeres, centromeric, cerebration, certioraris, charioteers, cherrystone, chiropteran, choirmaster, chronometer, chronometry, codirectors, cogenerator, cointerring, colorimeter, colorimetry, colporteurs, comptroller, concertgoer, concurrents, confronters, congregator, conjecturer, consecrator, conservator, contracture, contrariety, contravener, controllers, controversy, controverts, cooperators, copartnered, copromoters, copywriters, cordierites, cornerstone, corporately, corporative, correctable, corrections, correctives, correctness, correlating, correlation, correlative, correlators, corroborate, corruptible, corruptness, corsetieres, cotransfers, counterfire, counterpart, counterraid, couturieres, craniometry, crapshooter, crematories, crematorium, cryotherapy, cryptomeria, cyproterone, decelerator, declaratory, deprecatory, depreciator, descriptors, desecrators, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, directories, doctrinaire, electroform, electrogram, eradicators, erythrocyte, escritoires, forecasters, gerontocrat, hovercrafts, hydrometric, hygrometric, imprecatory, incinerator, incorporate, incorrectly, incorrupted, interceptor, intercessor, intercooler, intercourse, interdictor, interjector, introducers, mercuration, meritocracy, meritocrats, microliters, micrometers, neurotropic, nonreactors, nonsecretor, orchestrate, orthocenter, ostracoderm, overcontrol, overcorrect, overdirects, overprotect, overreacted, overstretch, perchlorate, percolators, perfunctory, persecutors, persecutory, precomputer, preconcerts, predicatory, predoctoral, prehistoric, preromantic, procaryotes, procreating, procreation, procreative, procreators, procrustean, procurement, prosecutors, prospectors, protectoral, protectress, prothoraces, protractile, protractive, protreptics, provocateur, quercitrons, radiometric, radiotracer, rarefaction, reactionary, rebroadcast, reciprocate, reciprocity, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reconstruct, recontoured, reconverted, recordation, recreations, rectorships, redecorated, redecorates, redecorator, redirection, reencounter, refectories, refractions, reintroduce, rencounters, replicators, restriction, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, retroceding, retrodicted, retrorocket, retrospects, rhetorician, sclerometer, spectrogram, spirometric, stockbroker, subdirector, terricolous, terroristic, tetrachords, tetrasporic, thermoduric, torchbearer, treacherous, triceratops, tricornered, trochanters, trochophore, uncorrected, undercrofts, urochordate, vociferator, watercolors, watercooler, watercourse, xerothermic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527169868184 |
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