rector

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Singular
rector

Plural
rectors

  1. (countable) A rector is a clerk who is in charge of a church or parish.
    By then the church had replaced him with the first of several rectors.
  2. (countable) A rector is a headmaster in educational institutions, e.g. a university.
    One of my friends has been a rector at various universities in the United States.