单词 | abbot |
释义 | abbot From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Christianityabbotab‧bot /ˈæbət/ noun [countable]RRCa man who is in charge of a monastery (=a place where a group of monks live)Examples from the Corpusabbot• Most landlords, even bishops and abbots, made no attempt to lay out their new towns.• Thereafter he became abbot of one of the city's suburban monasteries, and then bishop.• For I will go to the lord abbot and Father Herluin, and myself tell what I have done.• Monastic abbots, by comparison, found spiritual leadership easy, because the monks were sheltered from contact with the world.• There he had gotten to know the abbot.• The abbot was a clever man.Origin abbot (800-900) Late Latin abbas, from Late Greek, from Aramaic abba “father” |
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