Usually means: Member of a religious order.
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  1. friar: Merriam-Webster
  2. friar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. friar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. friar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. friar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Friar, friar: Wordnik
  7. friar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Friar, friar: Wiktionary
  9. friar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. friar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. friar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Friar, friar: Dictionary.com
  13. friar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. friar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Friar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Friar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. friar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. friar: Rhymezone
  19. friar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. friar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Friar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. friar: FreeDictionary.org
  23. friar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. friar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. friar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. FRIAR: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Friar: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
noun:  (printing, dated) A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
noun:  An American fish, the silverside.
noun:  A surname.

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