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monsignors

monsignors is the plural of monsignor.

Meaning of monsignor

Noun

monsignor (plural monsignors or monsignori)

  1. An ecclesiastic title bestowed on some Roman Catholic clerics by the Pope.
    • He goes one day to hear Father Hecker preach on the Destiny of Man, on another to hear Monsignor Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, then Archbishop Manning, and again Monsignor Mermillod and Father Burke. […] We have just made her a grand festa for her day, the 20th—twelve Masses, cardinal, two archbishops...1892, “Great Events in Rome”, in John Morris, editor, The Life of Mother Henrietta Kerr, Religious of the Sacred Heart, 3rd edition, Roehampton, pages 182 and 197

Noun capitalized: Monsignors

Monsignors

  1. (plural) plural of Monsignor

Questions about monsignors

What is monsignors the plural of?
Monsignors is the plural of monsignor.
What part of speech is monsignors?
Monsignors is a noun.

Words near monsignors in the dictionary

  1. monsieurs
  2. monsignor
  3. monsignorhood
  4. monsignori
  5. monsignorial
  6. monsignors
  7. monsir
  8. monsirs
  9. Monsky's theorem
  10. Monson
  11. Monsoni

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