Archimandrite: Definition and part of speech

Archimandrite

  1. n. A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.
  2. n. A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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