What does "priestess" mean?

A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

What is a synonym for "priestess"?

Common synonyms include: gythja, kahuna, mamaloi, mambo, miko, presbytera.

//ˈpristɪs// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

1
A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
"Sir Knight, said she (whose looks, language, and gesture create strange thoughts within me) be pleased to know, that I am (I will not say the first) of those Ladies of Honour, who wait upon the high-born, illustrious, and refulgent Maulkina, Daughter to the high and mighty Prince Paraclet, Prince of No-Land, on the confines of whose Territories we now are, so it is that the Divine Maulkina having been a vowed Votaress to Diana (whose Priestess she was, and whose Oracles she exhibited) upon a night as she sat at the feet of the Image of that chaste Deity […]"
2
a woman priest wordnet
3
A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination. slur, uncommon
"The “extenuating circumstances” set forth by the Rev. Mr. Higgins certainly bring home not only the nature of Bishop Hall's problem but its cause; however, the problems of parish life under a deaconess are insignificant in comparison with the very grave issues raised by the ordination of a priestess."
4
A priest’s wife. colloquial, obsolete
"As ſoon as they were parted, the Prieſteſs ﬂounced out of the Houſe, call'd for her Coachman, and bid him put in his Horſes, for away would ſhe go […]"

Verb

1
To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess. transitive
"Ye Ye Ife, a gifted feminist ritualist and priestess of Oshun from San Diego, trained in the Yoruba tradition, designed and priestessed the ritual with me."