Definition of Friar

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friar
n. monk, member of a Roman Catholic religious order

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Friar Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Friar
(n.)
An American fish; the silversides.
  
(n.)
A white or pale patch on a printed page.
  
(n.)
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
  

WordNet 2.0
friar

Noun
1. a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms
(synonym) mendicant
(hypernym) religious
(hyponym) Carmelite, White Friar

hEnglish - advanced version
friar

friar
\fri"ar\ (?), n. [or. frere, f. frère brother, friar, fr. l. frater brother. see brother.]
1. (r. c. ch.) a brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) minors, gray friars, or franciscans. (b) augustines. (c) dominicans or black friars. (d) white friars or carmelites. see these names in the vocabulary.
2. (print.) a white or pale patch on a printed page.
3. (zo?l.) an american fish; the silversides.
friar
bird (zo?l.), an australian bird (tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock the name is also applied to several other species of the same genus.


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Friar Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries

The Scotch Whisky by SDA v.4.20
Friar John Cor
Friar John Cor (to celebrate 500 years of Scotch Whisky Distilling 1494-1994), Blended Scotch Whisky
By: James Buchanan & Co. Ltd. (Glasgow and London, U.K.)

John Cor
Friar John Cor of Dunfermline, Fife. Monk of Lindores Abbey, first person who applied, in Scotland, for a license to distil "eight bolls of barley malt in Aqua Vitae for King James IV", in 1494 (Uisge Beatha in Gaelic), known as Whisky today.


Friar Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

The Harry Potter Glossary
Fat Friar, The
Resident ghost of Hufflepuff.


Friar Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Friar
friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.

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