Dominican

noun

Do·​min·​i·​can də-ˈmi-ni-kən 

: a member of a mendicant order of friars founded by St. Dominic in 1215 and dedicated especially to preaching

Dominican adjective

Examples of Dominican in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And while most of the islands on the list have populations in the tens of thousands, a couple winners are home to more than a million, like Jamaica (No. 14) and the Dominican Republic (No. 25). —Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025

Rosary has gone through changes and expansion since its founding, but has remained an all-girls, Catholic school sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield. —Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025

In 2014, Rojas — who’d spent two years in Argentina studying music production and sound engineering — returned to the Dominican Republic with a music library chock-full of dubstep and drum-and-bass instrumentals. —Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2025

The tour will kick off Nov. 21 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before making its way through Latin America through late February. —Pamela Avila, USA Today, 5 July 2025

Word History

Etymology

St. Dominic

First Known Use

1534, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

Dominican

noun

Do·​min·​i·​can də-ˈmin-i-kən 

: a member of a mendicant order of preaching friars founded in 1215

Dominican adjective