Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word pontificate. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: papacy, pontificate(verb) the government of the Roman Catholic Church. pontificate(verb) administer a pontifical office.
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti dies of cancer aged 71. Last updated at 19:50 06 September 2007. A weeping crowd has besieged the home of Luciano Pavarotti to pay tribute to the opera singer who died today aged 71. Pavarotti, modern-day opera's greatest star, died just before 5am following a long fight against pancreatic cancer.
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Monday June 3 2002. In an article, Life with Luciano, we referred to Luciano Pavarotti's father as though he were alive and aged 90. We failed to notice his death a few days earlier at the age of 89.