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friar

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. friar (noun)
  2. Friar Minor (noun)
  3. Friar Minor Conventual (noun)
  4. Friar Preacher (noun)
  5. friar skate (noun)
  6. friar's chicken (noun)
  7. friar's cloth (noun)
  8. friar's-cowl (noun)
  9. friar's lantern (noun)
  10. black friar (noun)
  11. gray friar
  12. grey friar (noun)
  13. white friar (noun)

fri·ar

noun \ˈfrī(-ə)r\

Definition of FRIAR

: a member of a mendicant order
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Origin of FRIAR

Middle English frere, fryer, from Anglo-French frere, friere, fraire literally, brother, from Latin fratr-, frater — more at brother
First Known Use: 13th century

Other Christian Religious Terms

Pentateuch, blasphemy, curate, doxology, eremite, iconoclasm, liturgy, orison, pneuma, reliquary

Rhymes with FRIAR

briar, choir, fire, gyre, hire, ire, mire, prior, sire, spire, squire, tier, tire, wire

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