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mendicant
noun[ C ]
formaluk /ˈmen.dɪ.kənt/ us /ˈmen.dɪ.kənt/
someone, especially a member of a religious group, who lives by asking people they do not know for money: 乞丐;（尤指）托钵僧
She abandoned her job and her career, and lived as a homeless mendicant on the streets of Philadelphia.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Homelessness
bag lady
be of/have no fixed abode/addressidiom
couch surf
couchsurfing
derelict
doss
dumping ground
homeless
homelessness
hostel
housing benefit
mendicancy
sofa-surf
sofa-surfing
soup kitchen
street
street child
vagrancy
waif
waifs and straysidiom
mendicant
adjective
formaluk /ˈmen.dɪ.kənt/ us /ˈmen.dɪ.kənt/
relating to a mendicant or to the religious group they belong to, or to someone who lives in a similar way:
Vagrant and mendicant priests of every denomination had flocked into the city.
Male members of the mendicant orders also acted as nurses in the Middle Ages.
He turned to a life as a mendicant preacher.
The paintings were once used by mendicant monks as a preaching aid.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Religious people: monks & nuns
abbess
abbey
abbot
anchorite
ascetic
benedictine
Franciscan
friar
friary
habit
hermit
lay brother
monastically
monasticism
monk
mother
novice
priory
Trappist monk
veil
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