Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

The word "pope" can be used as noun, proper noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

church

Capable Of

speak to masses

Defined As

head of catholic church head of roman catholic church leader of all roman catholics leader of catholic religion leader of roman catholic church

Derived Terms

Black Pope Pope County Pope Day Pope John Pope Night Pope catholic Pope of Fools Pope's Knight Pope's-hat Pope-king Pope-trumpery Popean Popeiana Red Pope White Pope Wope antipope dispope do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope does the Pope shit in the woods? is the Pope Catholic? pope Joan pope hat pope pleasing pope worshipper pope's eye pope's living room pope's nose pope's-milk pope-bulled pope-burning pope-conjurer pope-consecrated pope-fly pope-given pope-holy pope-horn pope-powdered pope-prompted pope-rid popeable popedom popehead popehood popeless popelike popeling popely popemobile popery popeship popish popism popist protopope unpope

Etymologically Related To

bishop

Inflected/Variant Forms

pop

Context

alcoholic beverages britain christianity coptic church cumberland dialectal eastern orthodoxy historical regional roman catholicism russian orthodoxy uk us

Has Property

catholic

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

Catholic cleric spiritual leader

Type Of (IsA)

bishop catholic priest falliable leader person priest religious leader roman catholic village

Not Desires

women to abort unwanted pregnancies

Receives Action

appointed by cardinals

Related Terms

Alexander Pope English poet antipope papacy papal papess papist popess

Related Terms

act alexandria as atlantic puffin autocephalous big big hat bishop bishop of rome boss caprimulgus vociferus catholic catholic boss catholic ceo catholic leader ceo christian church church leader church official city city state clergyman convert coptic early eurasian father fish fratercula arctica freshwater genus hat head head catholic head christian holy holy man honorary in vatican italy large large hat leader like man mulled nickname nighthawk official orthodox other painted bunting poet pontiff priest religious religious leader religious man roman catholic roman catholicism ruffe russian orthodox small sovereign title tokay vatican vatican city whippoorwill wine

Synonym Network

alexander pope pontiff

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.