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abbot

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ab·bot /ˈæbət/ noun [countable]  RRCa man who is in charge of a monastery (=a place where a group of monks live) 男修道院院长;大寺院男住持
Examples from the Corpus
abbotMost landlords, even bishops and abbots, made no attempt to lay out their new towns.Thereafter he became abbot of one of the city's suburban monasteries, and then bishop.For I will go to the lord abbot and Father Herluin, and myself tell what I have done.Monastic abbots, by comparison, found spiritual leadership easy, because the monks were sheltered from contact with the world.There he had gotten to know the abbot.The abbot was a clever man.
Origin abbot (800-900) Late Latin abbas, from Late Greek, from Aramaic abba father
ab·bot nounChineseSyllable
in a is (=a Corpus who charge man a of monastery


abbot
abbot /ˈæbət/ noun [countable]
 Date: 800-900
 Language: Late Latin
 Origin: abbas, from Late Greek, from Aramaic abba 'father'
a man who is in charge of a monastery (=a place where a group of monks live)


abbotBrE /ˈæbət/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæbət/ 🔊 nouna man who is the head of a monastery or an abbey 男修院院长