All friar synonyms

noun friar

• prior — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
• priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
• abbot — An abbot is the monk who is in charge of the other monks in a monastery or abbey.
• cleric — A cleric is a member of the clergy.
• father — a male parent.
• monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
• preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
• rector — a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• lama — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
• solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
• cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
• recluse — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
• brother — Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you.
• ascetic — An ascetic person has a way of life that is simple and strict, usually because of their religious beliefs.
• religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
• monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
• hermit — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
• anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
• vicar — Church of England. a person acting as priest of a parish in place of the rector, or as representative of a religious community to which tithes belong. the priest of a parish the tithes of which are impropriated and who receives only the smaller tithes or a salary.
• curate — A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
• divine — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
• ecclesiastic — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
• pontiff — any pontifex.
• padre — father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
• eremite — A Christian hermit or recluse.
• elder — (of one or more out of a group of related or otherwise associated people) of a greater age.
• archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
• clergyperson — a member of the clergy
• father confessor — confessor (def 2).
• man of god — a clergyman.
• man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.