bishop: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 13 letter points · starts with B · ends with P
Meaning of bishop
noun
An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
Listed forms: bishops, byshop.
Source: Wiktionary — bishop.
verb
To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
To make a bishop.
- UK, dialectal
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- broadly
To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
Listed forms: bishops, bishoping, bishopping, bishoped, bishopped, byshop.
Source: Wiktionary — bishop.
verb
- UK, colloquial, obsolete
To murder by drowning.
Listed forms: bishops, bishoping, bishopping, bishoped, bishopped.
Source: Wiktionary — bishop.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is bishop in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bishop
B(3) + I(1) + S(1) + H(4) + O(1) + P(3) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of bishop
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from bishop
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