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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abbot \Ab"bot\, noun [AS. abbod, abbad, L. abbas, abbatis, Gr. 'abba^s, fr. Syriac abb[=a] father. Cf. {Abba}, {Abb['E]}.]
1. The superior or head of an abbey.
2. One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. --Encyc. Brit.
{Abbot of the people}. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa.
{Abbot of Misrule} (or {Lord of Misrule}), in medi[ae]val times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the {Abbot of Unreason}. --Encyc. Brit.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abbot
noun: the superior of an abbey of monks [syn: {archimandrite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "abbot": abbacomes, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite
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