Usually means: Head of a monastery community.
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  1. abbot: Merriam-Webster
  2. abbot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abbot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abbot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abbot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abbot, abbot: Wordnik
  7. abbot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Abbot, abbot: Wiktionary
  9. abbot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abbot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abbot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abbot, abbot: Dictionary.com
  13. abbot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. AbboT, Abbot (Buddhism), Abbot (automobile), Abbot (crater), Abbot (disambiguation), Abbot (surname), Abbot, The Abbot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abbot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abbot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abbot: Rhymezone
  18. abbot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abbot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Abbot: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. abbot: FreeDictionary.org
  22. abbot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. abbot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. abbot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. abbot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. abbot: Merriam-Webster

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  1. abbot: Encyclopedia

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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbot: Catholic Encyclopedia
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  1. abbot, abbot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Abbot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
noun:  The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
noun:  A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
noun:  (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
noun:  (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, named after a John Abbot.

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