Noun: minister
| Singular | minister |
| Plural | ministers |
Sample Sentences
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The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.
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He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.
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Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. [1661 (first printed), Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham:]
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[…], I choſe / Camillo for the miniſter, to poyſon / My friend Polixenes: […] [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 287, column 2:]
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And Moſes roſe vp, and his miniſter Ioſhua: and Moſes went vp into the mount of God. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 24:13, column 1:]
Nouns inflected like minister
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite. See: Middle English Nouns '
ministre', Latin Nouns '
minister'.