Kathy set about brightening her coworkers' day with fresh muffins when her demoniac alter ago, High Priestess Lilith, convinced her to poison them.
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Priestess
//ˈpristɪs//
Synonyms for "priestess" (8 found)
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Related words (4)
Noun(3 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἱέρεια noun (woman with religious duties)
Armenian
1 entries- քրմուհի noun (woman with religious duties)
Belarusian
4 entries- жры́ца noun (woman with religious duties)
- пападдзя́ noun (priest’s wife)
- пападзьдзя́ noun (priest’s wife)
- пападзі́ха noun (priest’s wife)
Bulgarian
3 entries- жри́ца noun (woman with religious duties)
- попади́я noun (priest’s wife)
- свеще́ничка noun (woman with religious duties)
Catalan
1 entries- sacerdotessa noun (woman with religious duties)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 女教士 noun (woman with religious duties)
- 女祭司 noun (woman with religious duties)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- cihuatlamacazqui noun (woman with religious duties)
Czech
1 entries- kněžka noun (woman with religious duties)
Danish
1 entries- præstinde noun (woman with religious duties)
Dutch
2 entries- priesteres noun (woman with religious duties)
- priesterin noun (woman with religious duties)
Esperanto
1 entries- pastrino noun (woman with religious duties)
Finnish
1 entries- papitar noun (woman with religious duties)
French
1 entries- prêtresse noun (woman with religious duties)
German
1 entries- Priesterin noun (woman with religious duties)
Greek
2 entries- ιέρεια noun (woman with religious duties)
- παπαδιά noun (priest’s wife)
Hungarian
1 entries- papnő noun (woman with religious duties)
Irish
1 entries- bansagart noun (woman with religious duties)
Italian
1 entries- sacerdotessa noun (woman with religious duties)
Japanese
2 entries- 女教士 noun (woman with religious duties)
- 女祭司 noun (woman with religious duties)
Korean
1 entries- 여자 사제 noun (woman with religious duties)
Latin
4 entries- antistita noun (woman with religious duties)
- presbytera noun (priest’s wife)
- sacerdotessa noun (woman with religious duties)
- sacerdōs noun (woman with religious duties)
Latvian
1 entries- priesteriene noun (woman with religious duties)
Macedonian
2 entries- попадија noun (priest’s wife)
- свеште́ничка noun (woman with religious duties)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- prestinne noun (woman with religious duties)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- prestinne noun (woman with religious duties)
Old Norse
1 entries- prestkona noun (priest’s wife)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پاپادیا noun (priest’s wife)
Polish
2 entries- kapłanka noun (woman with religious duties)
- popadia noun (priest’s wife)
Portuguese
1 entries- sacerdotisa noun (woman with religious duties)
Romanian
2 entries- preoteasă noun (priest’s wife)
- preoteasă noun (woman with religious duties)
Russian
4 entries- жри́ца noun (woman with religious duties)
- ма́тушка noun (priest’s wife)
- попадья́ noun (priest’s wife)
- попадья́ noun (woman with religious duties)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- popàdija noun (priest’s wife)
- попа̀дија noun (priest’s wife)
Slovak
1 entries- kňažka noun (woman with religious duties)
Slovene
1 entries- svečenica noun (woman with religious duties)
Spanish
1 entries- sacerdotisa noun (woman with religious duties)
Swedish
1 entries- prästinna noun (woman with religious duties)
Turkish
1 entries- rahibe noun (woman with religious duties)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎋𐎅𐎐𐎚 noun (woman with religious duties)
Ukrainian
3 entries- жри́ця noun (woman with religious duties)
- попадя́ noun (priest’s wife)
- свяще́ниця noun (woman with religious duties)
West-Frisian
2 entries- preesteresse noun (woman with religious duties)
- prysteresse noun (woman with religious duties)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Having reached the end of this first sentence, in which the voodoo priestess had summoned them, they saw others and wondered how they could get to them together, inseparable Tom and Mary.
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The Voodoo priestess sniggered when Tom and Mary, lost in this sentence, asked themselves who, if not the author, actually controlled their fate.
Source: tatoeba (2472801)
Archaeologists in Egypt have announced the discovery of the tomb of an ancient priestess of Hathor, the goddess of fertility and childbirth.
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