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.
Luciano Pavarotti was born in 1935 on the outskirts of Modena in Northern Italy, the son of Fernando Pavarotti, a baker and amateur tenor, and Adele Venturi, a cigar factory worker. Although he spoke fondly of his childhood, the family had little money; its four members were crowded into a two-room apartment.