blackfriar

Other forms of blackfriar

plural

blackfriars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackfriar

What does blackfriar mean?

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

How many syllables are in blackfriar?

blackfriar has 3 syllables: black-fri-ar. The stress falls on "black".

What is another word for blackfriar?

Close synonyms include Dominican, Black Friar, 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 blackfriar a common word?

blackfriar 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.