· a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

Synonym(s): curate, minister_of_religion, parson, pastor, rector

Hypernym(s): clergyman, reverend, man_of_the_cloth

· a person appointed to a high office in the government; "Minister of Finance"

Synonym(s): government_minister

Hypernym(s): executive, executive_director

· a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

Synonym(s): diplomatic_minister

Hypernym(s): diplomat, diplomatist

· the job of a head of a government department

Hypernym(s): public_service

· attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"

Hypernym(s): attend, take_care, look, see

· work as a minister; "She is ministering in an old parish"

Hypernym(s): work