| has gloss | (noun) a leader in religious or sacred affairs
spiritual leader |
| lexicalization | eng: spiritual leader |
| subclass of | (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others
leader |
| has subclass | (noun) (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Evangelist |
| has subclass | (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
patriarch |
| has subclass | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church
pontiff, Holy Father, Catholic Pope, Bishop of Rome, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ, pope |
| has subclass | (noun) a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion
non-Christian priest, priest |
| has subclass | (noun) spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law
rabbi |
| has subclass | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
cantor, hazan |
| has subclass | (noun) the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches
Catholicos |
| has subclass | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
reverend, clergyman, man of the cloth |
| has instance | (noun) political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi |