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Noun: vicar  vi-ku(r)
  1. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
     
  2. (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
     
  3. (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish

Derived forms: vicars

See also: vicarial, vicarship

Type of: clergyman, man of the cloth, priest, reverend

Encyclopedia: Vicar Vicar, Almeria Vicar, Spain

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