Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A celibate priest ranking below a bishop.
- noun The head of a monastery or a group of monasteries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Eastern Church, an abbot-general, having other abbots (hegoumenoi) with their monasteries under his superintendence; also sometimes, especially among the Greeks, the abbot of a single large monastery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chief of a monastery, corresponding to
abbot in the Roman Catholic church. - noun A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to
superior abbot , orfather provincial , in the Roman Catholic church.
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- noun The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.
- noun An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic
priest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the superior of an abbey of monks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin archimandrīta, from Late Greek arkhimandrītēs : Greek arkhi-, archi- + Late Greek mandra, monastery (from Greek, cattle pen).]
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From Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek αρχιμανδρίτης (archimandrites), from αρχι- (archi-, "archi-") + μάνδρα (mandra, "enclosure, monastery").
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