black friar

1. 1.

   a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order

   SynonymsDominicanBlackfriarfriar preacher

   Broaderfriar

   NarrowerSavonarola

   Part ofDominican order

Questions about black friar

What does black friar mean?

black friar means "a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order".

What is another word for black friar?

Close synonyms include Dominican, Blackfriar, friar preacher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black friar a common word?

black friar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.