- the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who is also the Bishop of Rome
- the election of a new pope
- Pope Francis
- a visit from the Pope
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1- He became pope in 2013.
- He was granted an audience with the Pope.
- people who have met the Pope
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + pope- elect
- become
- meet
- …
- an audience with the pope
Word OriginOld English, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek papas ‘bishop, patriarch’, variant of Greek pappas ‘father’.
Idioms
See pope in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee pope in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishIs the Pope (a) Catholic?
- (humorous) used to say that there is no doubt that something is true
- ‘Will they arrive late?’ ‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’
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