1. bishop - Noun
2. bishop - Verb
3. Bishop - Proper noun
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
An old name for a woman's bustle.
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church. Ignatius of Antioch
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Raymond Chandler
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. Sydney Smith
The Devil's a busy bishop in his own diocese. Scottish Proverb
A dog may look at a bishop. French Proverb
All cannot have the Bishop for uncle. Swedish Proverb