Usually means: Beggar belonging to religious order.
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  1. mendicant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mendicant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mendicant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mendicant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mendicant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mendicant, mendicant: Wordnik
  7. mendicant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mendicant: Wiktionary
  9. mendicant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mendicant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mendicant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mendicant, mendicant: Dictionary.com
  13. mendicant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mendicant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mendicant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mendicant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mendicant: Rhymezone
  18. Mendicant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mendicant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. mendicant: Free Dictionary
  21. mendicant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. mendicant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mendicant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. mendicant: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. mendicant: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. mendicant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mendicants as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Depending on alms for a living.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a beggar.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
noun:  A pauper who lives by begging.
noun:  A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

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