CARMELITE ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carmelite order mean? 

• CARMELITE ORDER (noun)
  The noun CARMELITE ORDER has 1 sense:

1. a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century

  Familiarity information: CARMELITE ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARMELITE ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Carmelite order; Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Carmelite order"):

Carmelite; White Friar (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers)