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Crossword-Solution: BISHOP 6 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Bishop n. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
Bishop n. In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant
Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry,
superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of
the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a
diocese, bishopric, or see.
Bishop n. In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of
the highest church officers or superintendents.
Bishop n. A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation
of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
Bishop n. A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and
sugar.
Bishop n. An old name for a woman's bustle.
Bishop v. t. To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm;
hence, to receive formally to favor.
Bishop v. t. To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to
bishop an old horse or his teeth.

We have 78 clues for the answer “BISHOP”

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Head of a diocese 1 answer
One of the chessmen 1 answer
Man whose actions are biased? 1 answer
Man staying on one color 1 answer
Knight's right-hand man, sometimes 1 answer
Knight's neighbor, on a board 1 answer
Knight's neighbor, at the start 1 answer
It moves diagonally in chess 1 answer
It moves diagonally 1 answer
One often found by a king or queen 1 answer
Fulton J. Sheen. 1 answer
Fianchettoed piece 1 answer
Diocese dignitary 1 answer
Diagonal-moving piece 1 answer
Diagonal mover 1 answer
Current best-seller nonfiction author. 1 answer
Comedian Joey 1 answer
Queen's neighbor? 1 answer
Diagonally-moving chess piece 1 answer
a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color 1 answer
World War 1 air ace Billy 1 answer
Wine flavored with cloves 1 answer
Tapered-top piece 1 answer
Spiritual supervisor 1 answer
Senior member of the clergy 1 answer
Senior cleric 1 answer
Diagonal-moving chesspiece 1 answer
Proudie of Barchester. 1 answer
Priest's superior 1 answer
Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves 1 answer
Piece that moves on the diagonals 1 answer
Piece that moves diagonally 1 answer
Piece in a fianchetto opening 1 answer
Oxnam's title. 1 answer
Chess piece, moving diagonally. 1 answer
Chess piece worth a knight 1 answer
Chess piece with a clerical name 1 answer
Chess piece that moves diagonally 1 answer
Carson's erstwhile ABC rival 1 answer
Billy ___ (Canadian WWI ace) 1 answer
Miter wearer 2 answers
Neighbor of a knight 2 answers
RIGHT Father in God 2 answers
Knight's superior 2 answers
Diocese leader? 2 answers
King's neighbor. 2 answers
King protector 2 answers
HEAD of ecclesiastical province 2 answers
eparch 2 answers
An ecclesiastic 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BISHOP (5)

The horsemen closed about the carriage like a guard, and whenever a restless horse broke from control and shot down the road ahead of the body, the bishop laughed and rubbed his plump hands together.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Whereby it appears that he was born of a race of statesmen, and had a Lord Chancellor for his father, and a mother who was “distinguished both as a linguist and a theologian: she corresponded in Greek with Bishop Jewell, and translated his _Apologia_ from the Latin so correctly that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a single alteration.” It is the atmosphere we are reared in that determines how our inclinations and aspirations shall tend.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The poem of John the Reeve, or Steward, mentioned by Bishop Percy, in the Reliques of English Poetry, 3 is said to have turned on such an incident; and we have besides, the King and the Tanner of Tamworth, the King and the Miller of Mansfield, and others on the same topic.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Edward have got some business at Oxford, he says; so he must go there for a time; and after _that_, as soon as he can light upon a Bishop, he will be ordained.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
The lord on the other side thereof was a mightier man than King Peter, albeit he was a bishop, and a baron of Holy Church.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with BISHOP (3)

Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, ' — frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?
Rachel Caine Feast of Fools
Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something." The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action." Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.
Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 64 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).