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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The office or rank of a bishop.
  2. n. The diocese of a bishop.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The office or dignity of a bishop.
  2. n. The district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends; a diocese.
  3. n. The charge of instructing and governing in spiritual concerns; overseership.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.
  2. n. The office or function of being a bishop

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
  2. n. The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop

Etymologies

  1. Middle English bishoprik, from Old English bisceoprīce, the diocese of a bishop : bisceop, bishop; see bishop + rīce, realm; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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