Word.ws English Dictionary

grey friar

grey friar is the alternative spelling of greyfriar.

Meaning of greyfriar

Noun

greyfriar (plural greyfriars)

  1. Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.
    Synonyms:
    Franciscan

Noun capitalized: Grey Friar

Grey Friar (plural Grey Friars)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of grey friar.

Forms of grey friar

pluralgrey friars
alternative formGrey Friar
pluralGrey Friars

Questions about grey friar

What is grey friar the alternative spelling of?
Grey friar is the alternative spelling of greyfriar.
What part of speech is grey friar?
Grey friar is a noun.
What is the plural of grey friar?
The plural of grey friar is grey friars.

Words near grey friar in the dictionary

  1. grey folk
  2. grey fox
  3. grey foxes
  4. grey francolin
  5. grey francolins
  6. grey friar
  7. grey friars
  8. grey ghost
  9. grey ghosts
  10. grey gold
  11. grey goo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grey friar (page history and authors); Grey Friar (page history and authors); greyfriar (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “grey friar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/grey_friar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.