Dominican Meaning and Definition

Word: Dominican

Noun

Definitions:

1. A member of the Roman Catholic order of preaching friars founded by St. Dominic, or of a religious order for women founded on similar principles.

Example sentences: "Orders of monks and nuns multiplied over the years: Benedictines, Dominicans, Cistercians, Augustinians, Carmelites and others."

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Relating to St. Dominic or the Dominicans.

Example sentences: "Mary Catharine is a cloistered Dominican nun of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, Summit, New Jersey."

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Relating to the Dominican Republic or its people.

Example sentences: "In 1838 a small group of Spanish-speaking Dominican intellectuals from Santo Domingo organized a secret society called La Trinitaria to overthrow the Haitian rule."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic.

Example sentences: "Although 93 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, many Dominicans do not attend church regularly."

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Relating to the island of Dominica or its people.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A native or inhabitant of the island of Dominica.

Example sentences: "Native Dominicans are now being trained as clergy, but practitioners of the formal religions, particularly Catholic priests and nuns, have generally been foreigners."

Derivations:

Dominical

Dominic

Dominica

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Spanish: Dominicano

German: Dominikanischen

French: Dominicain

Italian: Dominicano

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