DOMINICAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dominican mean? 

• DOMINICAN (noun)
  The noun DOMINICAN has 2 senses:

1. a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order

2. a native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic

  Familiarity information: DOMINICAN used as a noun is rare.

• DOMINICAN (adjective)
  The adjective DOMINICAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people

2. of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order

  Familiarity information: DOMINICAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINICAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Black Friar; Blackfriar; Dominican; friar preacher

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

friar; mendicant (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)

Instance hyponyms:

Girolamo Savonarola; Savonarola (Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498))

Holonyms ("Dominican" is a member of...):

Dominican order (a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

West Indian (a native or inhabitant of the West Indies)

Holonyms ("Dominican" is a member of...):

Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)

• DOMINICAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the Dominican population

Pertainym:

Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Dominican monks

Pertainym:

Dominican (a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order)

 Context examples 

First he passed two Dominicans in their long black dresses, who swept by him with downcast looks and pattering lips, without so much as a glance at him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Denotes the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Dominican, NCI Thesaurus)