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DOMINICAN ORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Dominican order" is a kind of...):
monastic order; order (a group of person living under a religious rule)
Meronyms (members of "Dominican order"):
Black Friar; Blackfriar; Dominican; friar preacher (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order)
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