English Explanatory Dictionary

Piarist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.

Word forms

Piarist Piarists

Etymology

From Latin pius (“pious”), + -ist.

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