BREVIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breviary mean? 

• BREVIARY (noun)
  The noun BREVIARY has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders

  Familiarity information: BREVIARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREVIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("breviary" is a kind of...):

prayer book; prayerbook (a book containing prayers)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

 Context examples 

The Abbot was left to himself once more, and bent his thin gray face over his illuminated breviary.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)