NOUN | person | Black Friar, Dominican, Blackfriar, friar preacher | a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order |
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Meaning | A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order. | |
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Synonyms | Dominican, Blackfriar, friar preacher | |
Instances | Savonarola, Girolamo Savonarola | Italian religious and political reformer |
Member of | Dominican order | A Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century |
Broader | friar, mendicant | A male member of a religious order that originally / originally relied solely on alms |
Spanish | dominicano, dominico | |
Catalan | dominicà, dominic |
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