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AUGUSTINIAN ORDER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Augustinian order" is a kind of...):

monastic order; order (a group of person living under a religious rule)

Meronyms (members of "Augustinian order"):

Augustinian (a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Augustinian order"):

Augustinian Canons (an Augustinian monastic order)

Augustinian Hermits (a monastic order of friars established in 1256 by the Pope)

Austin Friars (an Augustinian monastic order)

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