In dictionaries:
Newton Abbot
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8671).
abbot suger
george abbot
abbot academy
(also known as Abbot Female Seminary and AA) an independent boarding preparatory school for women boarding and day care for students in grades 9–12 from 1828 to 1973.NY Times, NEEDS OF THE ABBOT ACADEMY.
lay abbot
a name used to designate a layman on whom a king or someone in authority bestowed an abbey as a reward for services rendered; he had charge of the estate belonging to it, and was entitled to part of the income.
abbot primate
(Catholicism) The representative leader of all Benedictine congregations.
robert abbot
mitred abbot
Abbot of Misrule
Leader of festive medieval chaos.
Abbot of Unreason
Mock leader in festive revels.
abbot of the people
Leader of a monastic community.
abbot general
The leader of a monastic order.
charles greeley abbot
(May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944.
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