Friar

English

Noun

Friar (plural Friars)

1. A member of certain Christian orders such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).

Synonyms

• (member of religious order): brother, frater, frater or father

Coordinate terms

• (member of religious order): sister

Derived terms

• friary
• black friar
• grey friar
• white friar

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Adjectives

coarse; unreverend; unhallowed; bungling; mendicant; saucy; true; meddling; frantic; humble; pious.

Thesaurus

abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French frere, from Latin frater (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophones: frier, fryer

Translations

member of certain Christian orders

Catalan: frare (ca) m. Chinese: 男修道士 (nán xiū dào shì) Filipino: frayle French: frère (fr) m. German: Mönch m., Ordensbruder m. Hungarian: barát (hu) Italian: frate (it) m.

Latin: frater (la) Portuguese: frade (pt) m. Russian: монах (ru) m. нищенствующего ордена Scottish Gaelic: manach (gd) m. Spanish: fraile (es) Volapük: (male or female) rodan (vo), (male) hirodan (vo)

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Verb

Friar

1. present tense of fria.