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Definition of "abbot" []

  • The superior of a monastery. (noun)
  • Used as a title for such a person. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "abbot" in a sentence
  • "Our Lady's Chapel has a bold kind of portal, and several ceilings of chapels, and tribunes in a beautiful taste: but of all delight, is what they call the abbot's cloister."
  • "Address by the abbot of Montecassino (who, as territorial abbot, is also the ordinary of Cassino):"
  • "The word abbot — abbas in Latin and Greek, abba in Chaldee and Syriac — came from the Hebrew ab, meaning father."
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