religious leader
English Thesaurus
1. leader of a religious order (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | leader, |
| definition | : | a person who rules or guides or inspires others (noun.person) |
| hypernym | : | religious person, |
| definition | : | a person who manifests devotion to a deity (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ayatollah, |
| definition | : | a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | guru, |
| definition | : | a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | guru, |
| definition | : | each of the first ten leaders of the Sikh religion (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mahdi, |
| definition | : | (Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | al-hakim, |
| definition | : | an Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | asanga, |
| definition | : | Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | joshua, |
| definition | : | (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | moon, sun myung moon, |
| definition | : | United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | guru nanak, nanak, |
| definition | : | Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | charles taze russell, russell, |
| definition | : | United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | isaac mayer wise, wise, |
| definition | : | United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | stephen samuel wise, wise, |
| definition | : | United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | brigham young, young, |
| definition | : | United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877) (noun.person) |
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