Preacher vs. Pastor

Preachernoun

Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel; a clergyman.

Preachernoun

One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.

Preachernoun

One who inculcates anything with earnestness.

Preachernoun

someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

Preacher

A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach components such as a moral or social worldview or philosophy.

Pastornoun

A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.

Pastornoun

Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people

Pastornoun

A minister or a priest in a Christian church.

Pastorverb

To serve a congregation as pastor

Pastornoun

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

Pastornoun

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

Pastornoun

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

Pastornoun

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Pastornoun

only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

Pastor

A pastor (abbreviated as or {singular}, or {plural}), is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, pastors are always ordained.