friar

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A member of certain Christian orders such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars)
(d) White Friars or Carmelites
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans
A member of one of the religious orders of begging brothers founded in the Middle Ages
An American fish; the silversides
member of a Mendicant (begging) religious order
a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms
A man who belongs to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church A friar strives to be free of worldly goods so that he may engage in preaching, missionary work, or other charitable undertakings
A white or pale patch on a printed page
(b) Augustines
{i} monk, member of a Roman Catholic religious order
(c) Dominicans or Black Friars
A friar is a member of one of several Catholic religious orders. a member of a religious group of Catholic men, who travelled around in the past teaching about Christianity and who were very poor monk (frere , from frater)
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friar's cowl
A species of plant, native to Asia and Europe
Friar Tuck
a fat and cheerful monk (=a member of an all-male religious group) , who enjoys eating and drinking, and appears in old English stories about Robin Hood as one of his followers. Friar Tuck
friar's lantern
a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
friar's lantern
{i} ignis fatuus, phosphorous weak light which hovers over the ground in marshy areas
friar's-cowl
tuberous perennial having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; Mediterranean; Canaries; Azores
black friar
A member of the religious order of the Dominicans
curtal friar
A friar with a short gown
Gray Friar
Franciscan Friar
Grey Friar
Franciscan Friar
austin friar
one of the Roman Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine
black friar
Also, sometimes, a Benedictine
black friar
A friar of the Dominican order; called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin
black friar
monk who belongs to the Dominican order who wears a black mantle
curtal friar
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery
friarly
Like a friar; inexperienced
friars
plural of friar
white friar
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order
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    brother, frater, father

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    /ˈfrīər/ /ˈfraɪɜr/

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