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Spell Bee Word: Pastor


What does pastor mean?

Word: Pastor

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pastor means a Christian minister who leads a church and looks after the people who belong to it.

Synonyms: minister, clergyman

How do you spell pastor?

Syllables: pas - tor

Tricky part: The ending is or, as in doctor and tutor. Writing ur or ar at the end is the usual mistake; pasture, a grassy field, is a different word.

Watch out for: pastur, pastar, pasttor

Memory tip: A pastor is a kind of mentor to the people in his care, and both words end in or.

Pastor in a sentence

Example 1: The pastor welcomed every family at the door of the community hall for the charity fair.

Example 2: Our neighbour's father is a pastor in Shillong and also coaches the school football team.

Example 3: The pastor taught the children's choir a new song for the music competition.

Fun Fact

Pastor is the Latin word for a shepherd, and pasture, a field where sheep graze, comes from the same root.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) candel
b) harvist
c) cottege
d) pastor

Show answer

d) pastor. Cottage has an a before the ge, candle ends in le, and harvest has an e before the st.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: pastor

a) merchant
b) farmer
c) minister
d) judge

Show answer

c) minister. A pastor is a minister who looks after a group of people.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

torpas

a) pastry
b) pastor
c) raptor
d) posture

Show answer

b) pastor. There is no y for pastry and no u for posture, so it is pastor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A talk that a pastor gives to his listeners is called a ____.

a) chorus
b) recipe
c) sermon
d) debate

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c) sermon

2. A pastor looks after people in much the same way as a ____ looks after a flock of sheep.

a) baker
b) pilot
c) tailor
d) shepherd

Show answer

d) shepherd

Associated Words

Words that end in -tor: sculptor, chiropractor, auditor, translator, collector, cultivator

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