FRIAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does friar mean? 

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

1. a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

friar; mendicant

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

religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friar"):

Carmelite; White Friar (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers)

Black Friar; Blackfriar; Dominican; friar preacher (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order)

Franciscan; Grey Friar (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order)

Augustinian (a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders)

 Context examples 

Yet there is a difference betwixt a friar's hack and a warrior's destrier.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You'd be as bald as a friar on the top of your head in twelve months, but for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Friar’s Oak is in a dip of the Downs, and the forty-third milestone between London and Brighton lies on the skirt of the village.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have you perchance a priest or friar aboard this ship, Master Hawtayne?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is a hole in the side two ells across, the sail split through the centre, and the wood as bare as a friar's poll.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The country is all scraped as clear as a friar's poll.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are like other friars, I trow, when all is done.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Plainly said and bravely spoken, my suckling friar,” roared a deep voice, and a heavy hand fell upon Alleyne's shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The clerk having made answer that he had heard the eels of Sowley well spoken of, the friar sucked in his lips and hurried forward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)