adj
Meaning 1
Depending on alms for a living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
mendicant
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adj
Meaning 2
Of or pertaining to a beggar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 4
A pauper who lives by begging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
practicing beggary
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- mendicant friars
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noun
Meaning 7
a pauper who lives by begging
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beggar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pauper
Narrower terms: beggarman, beggarwoman, moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger, panhandler, sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi, Lazarus
noun
Meaning 8
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: friar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religious
Narrower terms: Carmelite, White Friar, Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher, Franciscan, Grey Friar, Augustinian
History
Etymology
From Middle English mendicant, from Latin mendīcāns, present participle of mendīcō (“beg”). Compare French mendiant.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: просещ (prosešt) — depending on alms
- Czech: žebravý — depending on alms
- Dutch: bedel- — depending on alms
- Finnish: kerjäläis- — depending on alms
- French: mendiant — depending on alms
- German: Bettel- — depending on alms
- Latin: mendīcāns — depending on alms
- Polish: żebrzący — depending on alms
- Portuguese: mendicante — depending on alms
- Russian: нищенствующий (niščenstvujuščij) — depending on alms
- Spanish: mendicante — depending on alms
- Bulgarian: просешки (proseški) — of or pertaining to a beggar
- Finnish: kerjäläis- — of or pertaining to a beggar
- Polish: żebraczy — of or pertaining to a beggar
- Russian: нищенский (niščenskij) — of or pertaining to a beggar
- Catalan: mendicant — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Czech: žebravý — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Finnish: kerjäläis- — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Polish: mendykancki — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Polish: żebraczy — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Portuguese: mendicante — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Spanish: mendicante — of or pertaining to a member of a religious order who begs
- Bulgarian: просяк (prosjak) — beggar
- Chinese Mandarin: 乞丐 (qǐgài) — beggar
- Crimean Tatar: tilençi — beggar
- Dutch: bedelaar — beggar
- Esperanto: almozulo — beggar
- Esperanto: almozisto — beggar
- Finnish: kerjäläinen — beggar
- German: Bettler — beggar
- Hungarian: koldus — beggar
- Italian: mendicante — beggar
- Latin: mendīcus — beggar
- Navajo: adókeedí — beggar
- Plautdietsch: Pracha — beggar
- Polish: żebrak — beggar
- Polish: żebraczka — beggar
- Portuguese: mendigo — beggar
- Punjabi: ਮੰਗਤਾ (maṅgtā) — beggar
- Romanian: cerșetor — beggar
- Romanian: cerșetoare — beggar
- Russian: ни́щий (níščij) — beggar
- Russian: попроша́йка (poprošájka) — beggar
- Spanish: mendigo — beggar
- Swahili: mwombaji — beggar
- Tagalog: tanglo — beggar
- Ukrainian: жебрак (žebrak) — beggar
- Ukrainian: прохач (proxač) — beggar
- Bengali: দরবেশ (dôrbeś) — friar
- Catalan: mendicant — friar
- Dutch: bedelmonnik — friar
- Finnish: kerjäläismunkki — friar
- German: Bettelmönch — friar
- Manx: braar boght — friar
- Polish: mendykant — friar
- Russian: нищенствующий мона́х (niščenstvujuščij monáx) — friar