father brown

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   a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about father brown

What does father brown mean?

father brown means "a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton".

Is father brown a common word?

father brown 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.