ABBOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abbot mean? 

• ABBOT (noun)
  The noun ABBOT has 1 sense:

1. the superior of an abbey of monks

  Familiarity information: ABBOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABBOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The superior of an abbey of monks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

abbot; archimandrite

Hypernyms ("abbot" is a kind of...):

superior (the head of a religious community)

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

abbe (a French abbot)

Derivation:

abbatial (of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess)

 Context examples 

Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Abbot Berghersh was a good man, but how was he better than this kindly knight, who lived as simple a life, held as lofty and inflexible an ideal of duty, and did with all his fearless heart whatever came to his hand to do?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)