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crosiers

crosiers is the plural of crosier.

Meaning of crosier

Noun

crosier (plural crosiers)

  1. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
    • […]the lives of the Latin clergy were more corrupt, and the Eastern bishops might pass for the successors of the apostles, if they were compared with the lordly prelates, who wielded by turns the crosier, the sceptre, and the sword.1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC
  2. A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.
    Synonyms:
    fiddlehead

See all 3 meanings of crosier

Proper noun capitalized: Crosiers

Crosiers

  1. (plural) plural of Crosier

Questions about crosiers

What is crosiers the plural of?
Crosiers is the plural of crosier.
What part of speech is crosiers?
Crosiers is a proper noun.

Words near crosiers in the dictionary

  1. croshabell
  2. croshabells
  3. Croshaw
  4. crosier
  5. crosiered
  6. crosiers
  7. Croskey
  8. Croskeys
  9. croski
  10. croskis
  11. Crosland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosiers (page history and authors); Crosiers (page history and authors); crosier (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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