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igumen

igumen is the alternative form of hegumen.

Meaning of hegumen

Noun

hegumen (plural hegumens)

  1. The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.
    • From 1517 to 1637 a total of 19 Kirillov hegumens were transferred to other influential positions, and nine of them were raised to episcopal seats.2015, Ines Angeli Murzaku, Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics

Forms of igumen

pluraligumens

Questions about igumen

What is igumen the alternative form of?
Igumen is the alternative form of hegumen.

Words near igumen in the dictionary

  1. Iguazu
  2. Iguaçu
  3. igui
  4. Iguig
  5. Iguisabel
  6. igumen
  7. igumens
  8. igunaq
  9. iguratimod
  10. Iguvine
  11. Iguvium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: igumen (page history and authors); hegumen (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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