The Meaning of rector

• (n.) A ruler or governor.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
• (n.) The head master of a public school.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.

Rhymes

collector , connecter , connector , decter , defector , derecktor , detector , director , ector , erector , fechter , hector , injector , inspector , lecter , lector , nectar , objector , prechter , projector , prospector , protector , reflector , schechter , schecter , schlechter , sector , specter , spector , spectre , transtector , vector , wechter