| has gloss | (noun) leader of a religious order
religious leader |
| lexicalization | eng: religious leader |
| subclass of | (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others
leader |
| subclass of | (noun) a person who manifests devotion to a deity
religious person |
| has subclass | (noun) a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
guru |
| has subclass | (noun) each of the first ten leaders of the Sikh religion
Guru |
| has subclass | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well
ayatollah |
| has instance | (noun) (Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion
Mahdi |
| has instance | (noun) an Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021)
Al-hakim |
| has instance | (noun) Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)
Asanga |
| has instance | (noun) (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho
Joshua |
| has instance | (noun) Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Ruholla Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini |
| has instance | (noun) United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)
Sun Myung Moon, Moon |
| has instance | (noun) Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)
Nanak, Guru Nanak |
| has instance | (noun) United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916)
Charles Taze Russell, Russell |
| has instance | (noun) United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821)
Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, Elizabeth Seton, Mother Seton |
| has instance | (noun) United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)
Isaac Mayer Wise, Wise |
| has instance | (noun) United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)
Stephen Samuel Wise, Wise |
| has instance | (noun) United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
Brigham Young, Young |