| 单词 | mendicant |
| 释义 | mendicant[ men-di-kuhnt ] / ˈmɛn dɪ kənt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mendicant ON THESAURUS.COM adjectivebegging; practicing begging; living on alms. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar. nouna person who lives by begging; beggar. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms. Origin of mendicant1425–75; late Middle English <Latin mendīcant- (stem of mendīcāns), present participle of mendīcāre to beg, equivalent to mendīc(us) beggarly, needy + -ant--ant OTHER WORDS FROM mendicantnon·men·di·cant, adjectiveWords nearby mendicantmender, Menderes, Mendes, Mendès-France, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mending, Mendips, Mendocino, mend one's fences Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mendicantBritish Dictionary definitions for mendicantmendicant / (ˈmɛndɪkənt) / adjectivebegging (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenancemendicant friars characteristic of a beggar nouna mendicant friar a less common word for beggar Derived forms of mendicantmendicancy or mendicity (mɛnˈdɪsɪtɪ), nounWord Origin for mendicantC16: from Latin mendīcāre to beg, from mendīcus beggar, from mendus flaw Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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