English words for 'The position of abbot.'
Closest matches for "The position of abbot." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
Search results
noun
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- The quality of being obedient.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
noun
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adj
- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
adv
noun
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- a monastery ruled by an abbot
- (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- The church of a monastery.
- a convent ruled by an abbess
- a church associated with a monastery or convent
noun
- (religion, historical) A prior: an abbot's second-in-command.
- (fencing, historical) An assistant fencing master.
- (religion) The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.
- (US, higher education) A senior deputy administrator; a vice-president of academic affairs.
- (historical) A steward or seneschal: a medieval agent given management of a feudal estate or charged with collecting fees.
- (historical) Any manager or overseer in a medieval or early modern context.
- (religion, historical) A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
- (historical) A constable: a medieval or early modern official charged with arresting, holding, and punishing criminals.
- (military) An officer of the military police, particularly provost marshal or provost sergeant.
- (religion) The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
- A mayor: the chief magistrate of a town, particularly (Scotland) the head of a burgh or (historical) the former chiefs of various towns in France, Flanders, or (by extension) other Continental European countries.
- (UK, higher education) The head of various colleges and universities.
- a high-ranking university administrator
adj
noun
- the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
- any large and important church
- A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
- (figurative) A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
- The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
- (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.
noun
- The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
- The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
- (Christianity) The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
- A patriarchal system or community.
- the jurisdiction of a patriarch
- a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
noun
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
verb
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
noun
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- (intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
- (intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
- administer a pontifical office
- talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
noun
noun
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- The quality of being obedient.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
noun
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adj
- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
adv
noun
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- a monastery ruled by an abbot
- (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- The church of a monastery.
- a convent ruled by an abbess
- a church associated with a monastery or convent
noun
- (religion, historical) A prior: an abbot's second-in-command.
- (fencing, historical) An assistant fencing master.
- (religion) The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.
- (US, higher education) A senior deputy administrator; a vice-president of academic affairs.
- (historical) A steward or seneschal: a medieval agent given management of a feudal estate or charged with collecting fees.
- (historical) Any manager or overseer in a medieval or early modern context.
- (religion, historical) A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
- (historical) A constable: a medieval or early modern official charged with arresting, holding, and punishing criminals.
- (military) An officer of the military police, particularly provost marshal or provost sergeant.
- (religion) The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
- A mayor: the chief magistrate of a town, particularly (Scotland) the head of a burgh or (historical) the former chiefs of various towns in France, Flanders, or (by extension) other Continental European countries.
- (UK, higher education) The head of various colleges and universities.
- a high-ranking university administrator
noun
- The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
- The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
- (Christianity) The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
- A patriarchal system or community.
- the jurisdiction of a patriarch
- a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
noun
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
verb
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
noun
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- (intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
- (intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
- administer a pontifical office
- talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
noun
No matching words found. Try a broader description.
adj
noun
- the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
- any large and important church
- A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
- (figurative) A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
- The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
- (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.