Mendicants synonyms

Category:

friars
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
1
0
beggars
The definition of a beggar is a person who asks people for money or gifts to sustain himself, or is a person who is extremely poor.
0
0
vagabonds
An idle, disreputable, or shiftless person
0
0
monks
A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order:
0
0
moochers
A person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves. Usually used as a pejorative.
0
0
requests (related)
Something asked for:
0
0
Advertisement
Find another word for mendicants. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mendicants, like: friars, beggars, vagabonds, monks, moochers and requests.
Trending topics
More Articles

Mendicants Sentence Examples

  • They are declared to be mendicants and enjoy all the privileges of the other mendicant orders.

  • Chunda prepared for the mendicants a mid-day meal, and after the meal the Buddha started for Kusinara.

  • Do you imagine that I am not able to supply the wants of so many mendicants?"

  • The mendicants, Dominican and Franciscan, took rapid root in England; the number of friaries erected in the reign of Henry III.

  • Ladies gorgeously clad, and knights, showing by their dress and bearing their anxiety to revive the glories and the follies of the age of chivalry, jostled mountebanks, mendicants and vendors of all kinds.

More sentences

Words near mendicants in the Thesaurus