Crossword-Solution: FRIAR 5 letters, 106 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Friar n. A brother or member of any religious order, but especially
of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or
Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White
Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
Friar n. A white or pale patch on a printed page.
Friar n. An American fish; the silversides.

We have 106 clues for the answer “FRIAR”

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"The Canterbury Tales" traveler 1 answer
Accomplice in "Romeo and Juliet" 1 answer
Augustinian, e.g. 1 answer
Brother in a hood? 1 answer
Brotherly sort 1 answer
Carmelite monk 1 answer
Certain Franciscan 1 answer
Church brother 1 answer
Cloaked figure 1 answer
Cloister denizen 1 answer
DOMINICAN 1 answer
Dominican or Franciscan. 1 answer
Dominican, e.g. 1 answer
Dominican, say 1 answer
Ecclesiastic sounding like an appliance 1 answer
FRATE 1 answer
Franciscan or Dominican 1 answer
Frock sporter 1 answer
His tale follows the Wife of Bath's 1 answer
Laurence in Romeo and Juliet 1 answer
Laurence or Tuck 1 answer
Man with his life in order? 1 answer
Minorite or Jacobin 1 answer
Monastery member 1 answer
Noted roaster 1 answer
One following an order 1 answer
One in a mission 1 answer
One living life in order? 1 answer
Religious man 1 answer
Robin Hood pal __ Tuck 1 answer
Robin Hood's Tuck 1 answer
Robin Hood's friend Tuck, e.g. 1 answer
Robin Hood's jovial companion. 1 answer
Robin's Tuck 1 answer
Romeo's adviser, for one 1 answer
Summoner's rival in "The Canterbury Tales" 1 answer
The Swinging ___, robe-wearing mascot for the Padres 1 answer
This Tuck liked his food 1 answer
Title for Tuck 1 answer
Title for Tuck or Lawrence 1 answer
Tuck of Sherwood Forest 1 answer
Tuck of Sherwood Forest fame, for one 1 answer
Tuck of Sherwood Forest, e.g. 1 answer
Tuck of a fictional forest 1 answer
Tuck of fiction 1 answer
Tuck of legend 1 answer
Tuck or Laurence 1 answer
Tuck or Lawrence. 1 answer
Tuck title 1 answer
Tuck's title 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AREA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FRIAR (5)

Robin Hood and Friar Tuck were designed to run as `ghost jobs' (daemons, in UNIX terminology); they would use the existing loophole to subvert system security, install the necessary patches, and then keep an eye on one another's statuses in order to keep the system operator (in effect, the superuser) from aborting them.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Then, when a slave ship reached the New World, a friar boarded the ship and examined the slaves to see that the requirements had been met.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
That’s fair.” “Why, I can’t do that, it ain’t in the book.” “Well, it’s blamed mean—that’s all.” “Well, say, Joe, you can be Friar Tuck or Much the miller’s son, and lam me with a quarter-staff; or I’ll be the Sheriff of Nottingham and you be Robin Hood a little while and kill me.” This was satisfactory, and so these adventures were carried out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The Hermit replies, by once more insisting on the duties incumbent upon him as a churchman, and continues to affirm himself free from all such breaches of order: “Many day I have here been, And flesh-meat I eat never, But milk of the kye; Warm thee well, and go to sleep, And I will lap thee with my cope, Softly to lye.” It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King’s cheer.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
But she arose and stood a little way from him, and spake to him sweetly of the fairness of the evening, and the wounded man, and the good hap of the friar's coming before nightfall; and his heart was wrung sore with the love of her.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with FRIAR (3)

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!""And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, heturned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.
Judith McNaught A Kingdom of Dreams
Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from the actual annihilation of matter through the union of electrons and protons to form radiation, completely abolished the whole grotesque burden of drudgery which hitherto had seemed the inescapable price of civilization, nay of life itself. The vast economic routine of the world-community was carried o…
Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 161 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).