AUGUSTINIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

friar; mendicant (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)

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

Austin Friar (one of the Roman Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine)

Holonyms ("Augustinian" is a member of...):

Augustinian order (any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine)

Credits