abbot
IPA: ˈæbʌt
noun
- The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
- The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
- A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
- (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
- (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
- A surname.
- A town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, named after a John Abbot.
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Examples of "abbot" in Sentences
- He is the current abbot of the abbey.
- The current abbot of the abbey is him.
- The abbot removes the grain and he dies.
- The hermit Gebino was appointed the first abbot.
- These vows are taken in the presence of the Abbot.
- Raimondo is risen in the order to the rank of Abbot.
- The Abbot of the monastery is the Bishop of the Diocese.
- He was Abbot of Redwall in the time of Martin the Second.
- The dweller in the laura was under an archimandrite or abbot.
- Coelchu was the abbot of the School of Clonmacnoise in Ireland.
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