fra
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Definition of fra
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A title of a friar or monk: brother.
“You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.”
“The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]”
“"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.”
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noun
-
A title of a friar or monk: brother.
“You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.”
“The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]”
“"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.”
- a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
adv
- (alt-of, archaic, not-comparable)Archaic form of fro.
name
- Short form of Francis.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr From Italian frate. See friar.
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