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crozier

crozier is the alternative spelling 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: Crozier

Crozier

  1. A surname.

Forms of crozier

pluralcroziers

Phrases with crozier

Questions about crozier

What does crozier mean?
Crozier means a surname.
What is crozier the alternative spelling of?
Crozier is the alternative spelling of crosier.
What part of speech is crozier?
Crozier is a proper noun.

Words near crozier in the dictionary

  1. Crozer
  2. crozes
  3. Crozet
  4. Crozets
  5. Crozetts
  6. crozier
  7. croziered
  8. croziered abbot
  9. croziered abbots
  10. croziers
  11. Crozon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crozier (page history and authors); Crozier (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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