Friar

Definition: Friar

Friar

Noun

1. A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.

Date "friar" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Specialty Definition: Friar

Domain	Definition
Literature	Friar A curtal Friar. (See Curtal .) Friar in printing. A part of the sheet which has failed to receive the ink, and is therefore left blank. As Caxton set up his printing-press in Westminster Abbey, it is but natural to suppose that monks and friars should give foundation to some of the printers' slang. (See Monk.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Friar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A friar is a member of a religious order of men.

This term is particulary appropriate for members of the four mendicant orders (Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans).

Its etymology is the Latin frater (brother).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Friar."

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Synonym: Friar

Synonym: mendicant (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Friar

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite.
Demon	Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Friar

English words defined with "friar": Austin Friar ♦ Black Friar, Blackfriar ♦ Carmelite, Crutched friar, Curtal friar ♦ Disfriar, Dominican ♦ Four-o'clock, Fra, Franciscan, Frere, Friar bird, Friar skate, Friarly ♦ Girolamo Savonarola, Gray Friar ♦ Jesuits' drops ♦ Leatherhead ♦ Mendinant, Minorite, Monk bird ♦ poor soldier, Predicant ♦ Savonarola ♦ White Friar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "friar": Brazen Head ♦ Carmelite, Chirping Cup ♦ Friar Bungay, Friar Dominic, Friar John, Friar Laurence, Friar Rush, Friar Tuck, Friar's Heel, Friar's Lanthorn ♦ Irrefragable Doctor ♦ Laurence ♦ Science Persecuted ♦ Warden-pie. (references)

Etymologies containing "friar": Confrier ♦ Disfriar ♦ Frere ♦ Mendinant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Friar

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The New York Friar Club Roast of Chevy Chase (2002)
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Commercial Usage: Friar

Domain	Title
Books	Discovery of the Amazon According to the Accounts of Friar Gaspar De Carajal and Other Documents (reference) John of Wales : A Study of the Works and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar (reference) Providence College Basketball: The Friar Legacy (Images of Sports) (reference) Tales of Padre Pio: The Friar of San Giovanni (reference) The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars= Historia Mongalorum Quo s Nos Tartaros Appellamus: Friar Giovanni Di Plano Carpini's Account of Hi (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Friar Tut (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Friar

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Use in Literature: Friar

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	After all Aquinas, in spite of his intellect, was exactly a good round friar.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	[To CATESBY] Go thou to Friar Penker.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Friar

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J.
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Usage Frequency: Friar

"Friar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Friar" is used about 301 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	71.43%	215	20,643
Noun (proper)	27.24%	82	36,594
Lexical Verb (base form)	1%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	301	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Friar

The following table summarizes the usage of "friar" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Friar	Last name	1,000	14,911
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Friar

Expressions using "friar": augustine friar ♦ austin friar ♦ begging friar ♦ black friar ♦ crossed friar ♦ crouched friar ♦ Crutched friar ♦ Curtal friar ♦ dominican friar ♦ Friar bird ♦ friar Rush ♦ Friar skate ♦ gray friar ♦ grey friar ♦ mendicant friar ♦ preaching friar ♦ white friar. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "friar": friar-bird, Friar-tuck.
	Ending with "friar": Duke-friar, greylag-friar, white-friar.
	Containing "friar": Black-friar-wynd.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Friar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
friar tux	65	friar quaff tuck	6
friar tuck	60	club friar new york	6
friar	47	daoc friar	6
club friar	44	friar laurence picture	6
friar inn tuck	43	friar minor order	6
friar shop tux	23	friar roast	5
franciscan friar	20	friar laurence	5
friar resort tuck	16	friar hill wv	5
franciscan friar renewal	15	friar psychic	4
friar point mississippi	13	friar tuxedos	4
club friar roast	12	friar minor	4
friar park	11	capuchin friar	4
friar lawrence	10	friar balsam	4
friar sebastian	9	angeles club friar los	4
friar real estate	9	friar from juliet lawrence romeo	4
friar tuxedo	9	black friar inn	4
faith friar in pitch put tv	8	cincinnati club friar	4
drunken friar	7	dominican friar	3
friar head	7	friar picture	3
friar goebel tuck	6	beverly club friar hills	3
		catskill friar inn ny tuck	3
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Modern Translation: Friar

Language		Translations for "friar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		bedelmonnik (mendicant, mendicant friar), bedelbroeder (mendicant, mendicant friar). (various references)

Albanian		murg (coenobite, conventual, monastic, monk, religioner). (various references)

Arabic		‏أخوية دينية, ‏أخ (brother), ‏راهب (fogey, hermit, monk, old fogey, religious, trappist). (various references)

Bulgarian		калугер (monk), монах (cloisterer, monastic, monk, religionary, religious, shaveling, votary). (various references)

Czech		fráter, mnich (carthusian, coenobite, monk, religious), řeholník (monk, religious). (various references)

Dutch		bedelmonnik (mendicant friar). (various references)

Esperanto		kvestisto (mendicant friar), almozmonaĥo (mendicant friar). (various references)

Finnish		luostariveli (monk). (various references)

French		religieux. (various references)

German		mönch (monk), Klosterbruder. (various references)

Greek		καλόγηροσ (monk), μοναχόσ (lone, solitary). (various references)

Hebrew		אח (brother, countryman, fellow, kinsman), � זיר (abstinent, anchorite, hermit, monk). (various references)

Hungarian		szerzetes (monastic, monk, regular, religious, shaveling, votary). (various references)

Indonesian		frater (brother), bruder. (various references)

Irish		bráthair (brother). (various references)

Italian		frate (monk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		修�"士 (monk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうどうし (monk). (various references)

Manx		freer, braar (brother, monk). (various references)

Norwegian		tiggermunk. (various references)

Pig Latin		iarfray

Portuguese		frade (brother, monkdom, regular, religious, shaveling), quebradiço (brash, brittle, crisp, crumbly, fragile, frail, power). (various references)

Romanian		cãlugãr (conventual, jacobin, monk). (various references)

Russian		монах (cloisterer, coenobite, conventual, monastic, monk, obedientiary, religioner, votary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kaluđer (cowl, monk, votary). (various references)

Spanish		fraile (freshwater blenny). (various references)

Swedish		tiggarmunk (mendicant, mendicant friar). (various references)

Thai		พระในคริสตศาสนานิกายโรมันคาทอลิก. (various references)

Turkish		keşiş (hermit, monastic, monk, priest, recluse, regular, shaveling), katolik rahibi. (various references)

Ukrainian		чернець (benedictine, brother, coenobite, conventual, monastic, obedientiary, regular, religious). (various references)

Vietnamese		thầy tu dòng Đô-mi-ních (black friar). (various references)

Welsh		brawd (brethren, brother, judgment). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Friar

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	frater. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	frere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Friar

Derivations
	Words beginning with "friar": friaries, friarly, friars, friary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Friar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fainaru, farir, feira, Ferier, fidar, Firar, fraer, frai, fraim, fraip, frair, fratri, freag, Freier, Freyja, friae, friair, frial, Friere, Frigard, frikarti, Frimaire, frio, frior, frita, frivar, friza, froar, frugar, fryor, Iftikar, riar, riarr, triar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Friar"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "friar" (pronounced frī"er)
4	f r ī" er	frier, fryer.
3	-r ī" er	briar, brier, crier, drier, dryer, prier, prior, pryer, Trier.
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Anagrams: Friar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-i-r-r"
	-1 letter: fair, fiar.
	-2 letters: air, arf, far, fir, ria, rif.
	-3 letters: ai, ar, fa, if.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-i-r-r"
	+1 letter: fairer, friars, friary, rarify.
	+2 letters: airfare, farrier, firearm, frailer, friarly, refrain.
	+3 letters: aeriform, affirmer, aircraft, airfares, airframe, airproof, arciform, argufier, auriform, birdfarm, craftier, draffier, draftier, farriers, farriery, ferriage, firearms, firebrat, firetrap, firmware, freakier, friaries, infrared, ramiform, rarefied, rarefier, rarefies, rarified, rarifies, ratifier, reaffirm, refrains, riffraff, triforia, unfairer, variform, warfarin.
	+4 letters: affirmers, airframes, airproofs, argufiers, artificer, birdfarms, clarifier, farrowing, ferriages, fibrillar, fioritura, firebrand, firebrats, firebreak, firedrake, fireguard, firetraps, firewater, firmwares, forebrain, formicary, infirmary, infrareds, rainproof, rarefiers, rarefying, rarifying, ratifiers, reaffirms, refrained, reframing, riffraffs, scarifier, starfruit, warfarins.
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