
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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