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The correct spelling is pope.
How to pronounce pope
/pəʊp/
nounIPA: /pəʊp/
Say it like: Pop-e
The correct spelling is pope. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
- 2.(Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
- 3.An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
- 4.Any bishop of the early Christian church.
- 5.The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
verb
- 1.To act as or like a pope.
- 2.To convert to Roman Catholicism.
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