📖 Definitions of "Minor piece"
noun
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A bishop or a knight.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Minor piece"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| good bishopnoun | (chess) A bishop that has high mobility. |
| archernoun | One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow. |
| alfinnoun | (chess, historical) A bishop. |
| boy bishopnoun | (historical) In many mediaeval English cathedrals and other collegiate institutions, a boy elected to act or parody the role of a bishop for a part of the Christmas period (traditionally from St Nicholas' Day to Innocents' Day). |
| cobishopnoun | A joint or coadjutant bishop. |
| even-bishopnoun | A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop. |
| bishopnoun | (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory. |
| knightnoun | (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch. |
| prince-bishopnoun | Alternative spelling of prince bishop. [A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.] |
| chapternoun | One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book. |
| prince bishopnoun | A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese. |
| bishopricnoun | A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs. |
| byshopnoun | Obsolete spelling of bishop. [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.] |
| benchernoun | (Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick). |
| bishophoodnoun | The state, condition, or office of a bishop. |
| kingletnoun | (chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory. |
| flying bishopnoun | (informal) An itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another's diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women. |
| cathedranoun | The chair or throne of a bishop. |
| half-batnoun | (military) A half of a battalion. |
| abbot-bishopnoun | An abbot who is also a bishop. |
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