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comarb

comarb is the alternative form of coarb.

Meaning of coarb

Noun

coarb (plural coarbs)

  1. (historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
    • These abbots were sometimes bishops; but whether they were bishops or of lower rank in the ministry, their authority was inherent in their office of coarb.1920, H. J. Lawlor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
  2. (historical) The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.

Forms of comarb

pluralcomarbs

Questions about comarb

What is comarb the alternative form of?
Comarb is the alternative form of coarb.

Words near comarb in the dictionary

  1. comap
  2. comaps
  3. Comar
  4. Comara
  5. comaraderie
  6. comarb
  7. comarbs
  8. comarca
  9. comarcas
  10. comarginal
  11. comarket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comarb (page history and authors); coarb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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