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POSTULANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does postulant mean?
• POSTULANT (noun)
The noun POSTULANT has 1 sense:
1. one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
Familiarity information: POSTULANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("postulant" is a kind of...):
petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)
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