dominican

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsBlack FriarBlackfriarfriar preacher

   Broaderfriar

   NarrowerSavonarola

   Part ofDominican order
2. 2.

   a native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic

   BroaderWest Indian

   Part ofDominican Republic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people

   “the Dominican population”
2. 2.

   of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order

   “Dominican monks”

Other forms of dominican

plural

dominicans·

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 dominican

What does dominican mean?

dominican means "a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dominican?

dominican has 4 syllables: do-min-i-can. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /dəˈmɪnəkən/.

What is another word for dominican?

Close synonyms include Black Friar, 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 dominican a common word?

dominican is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.