friar preacher

Questions about friar preacher

What does friar preacher mean?

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

What is another word for friar preacher?

Close synonyms include Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar. 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 friar preacher a common word?

friar preacher 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.