How to spell priest

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What it means: A person who performs religious duties.

In a sentence: The priest rang the church bell on Sunday morning.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as priast or preist.

Same family: priestly, priesthood, high priest, priestess, clergy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Priest comes from Old English 'preost', which came from Greek 'presbyteros' meaning 'elder'. Over time, the word shifted from meaning an older leader in a community to a specific religious official.

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