friar

IPA/ˈfraɪə(r)/
KK[frˈaɪɚ]IPA/ˈfraɪər/

friar — 名詞

  • friarsingular
  • friarsplural

1. a man who has taken religious vows to live with very few possessions as part of

1.名詞C1
釋義

修士；托缽僧

天主教男性修道會成員，傳統上靠乞食維生

a man who has taken religious vows to live with very few possessions as part of a Roman Catholic mendicant order; in earlier centuries friars walked from town to town teaching about the faith and accepting food or money from ordinary people.

例句

A friar in a brown robe greeted visitors at the church door after morning mass.

一位身穿棕色長袍的修士站在教堂門口，在晨間彌撒結束後迎接訪客。

typical clothing detail: 'in a brown robe'

The medieval friars walked from village to village, teaching peasants the stories of the Bible.

中世紀的托缽修士穿梭於村莊之間，向農民講述《聖經》的故事。

historical pattern: friars + travelled + teaching

常見搭配
  • Franciscan friar
  • Dominican friar
  • become a friar
  • the friars' robe
同義詞
  • monk

    broader term for a male religious; monks usually stay in a monastery, while friars move among ordinary people

  • brother

    informal title for a male member of a religious order, including friars

  • mendicant

    formal term emphasising the vow of poverty and dependence on donations

反義詞
  • nun

    female counterpart in religious life

  • layperson

    any ordinary member of a church who has not taken religious vows

文法句型

a friar of [order]

Friar [Name]

用法筆記

Frequently appears as a title before a name (Friar Tuck, Friar Lorenzo). Distinguish from 'monk': friars belong to mendicant orders that historically lived among ordinary people and worked in towns, while monks live enclosed in monasteries.

常見錯誤

She is studying to be a friar.
She is studying to be a nun.
'friar' refers only to male members; the female equivalent is 'nun' or 'sister'.
The friars live alone in their monastery and never leave.
The monks live alone in their monastery and never leave.
friars work among the public; enclosed religious men are monks.

同根字

  • friary
    名詞C2

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • Franciscan friar
  • Dominican friar
  • friar's robe
  • friar's habit

常用片語

  • become a friar
  • join a friary

介系詞搭配

  • of (a friar of the Dominican order)