Friar

Noun

 * 1) A member of certain Christian orders such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).

Synonyms

 * brother, frater, frater or father

Coordinate terms

 * sister

Derived terms

 * friary
 * black friar
 * grey friar
 * white friar

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Adjectives

coarse; unreverend; unhallowed; bungling; mendicant; saucy; true; meddling; frantic; humble; pious.

Thesaurus
abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite

Etymology
, from frere:, from  frater:, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Translations

 * Catalan: frare
 * Chinese: 男修道士 (nán xiū dào shì)
 * Filipino: frayle
 * French:
 * German: Mönch, Ordensbruder
 * Hungarian: barát
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese: frade
 * Russian: нищенствующего ордена
 * Scottish Gaelic: manach
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: rodan,  hirodan