[ˈbɪʃəp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders

- an African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage

- a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black

- mulled and spiced wine


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Origin:
Old English biscop, bisceop, via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’