Mendicant - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈmendɪkənt|
Brit.
|ˈmendɪk(ə)nt|
noun
- a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms (syn: friar)
- a pauper who lives by begging (syn: beggar)
- a pauper who lives by begging (syn: beggar)
adjective
- practicing beggary
mendicant friars
Extra examples
...those wretched mendicants on the streets of Calcutta...
Word forms
noun
singular: mendicant
plural: mendicants
singular: mendicant
plural: mendicants
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