archbishop

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/|/ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/    美 /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/|/ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
    — Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.
  2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.

词形变化

archbishops plural abp. alternative Abp. alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
archbishophood
相关词
archbishopdom archbishopric archbishopship archepiscopal bishop bishopric episcopal archdiocese diocese Excellency Grace prelate primate

词源

From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “to watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to examine”), equivalent to arch- + bishop.
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