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archimandrites

archimandrites is the plural of archimandrite.

Meaning of archimandrite

Noun

archimandrite (plural archimandrites)

  1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.
    • My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves. I have been an archimandrite, here at Pskov, since 1915 and a humble monk for twenty years before that.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145
  2. (rare, Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.

Questions about archimandrites

What is archimandrites the plural of?
Archimandrites is the plural of archimandrite.

Words near archimandrites in the dictionary

  1. archimages
  2. archimagi
  3. archimagus
  4. archimandrital
  5. archimandrite
  6. archimandrites
  7. archimedean
  8. Archimedean ordered field
  9. Archimedean ordered fields
  10. Archimedean point
  11. Archimedean points

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