1. rector - Noun
2. Rector - Proper noun
A ruler or governor.
A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
A clergyman in charge of a parish.
The head master of a public school.
The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell. Paul Bowles
It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P. E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector. Mary McCarthy
clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches Source: Internet
Acting rector and vice-chancellor Vivienne Lawack said the Bellville campus would reopen once those who had been in contact with the man had been cleared. Source: Internet
After directing his last film in 1943, Kuleshov served as an artistic director and an academic rector at VGIK where he worked for the next 25 years. Source: Internet
A fourth chair was given to Ericus Jacobi Skinnerus, who was also appointed rector, but whose discipline was not mentioned in the charter. Source: Internet