Overview of noun mendicant

The noun mendicant has 2 senses

• friar, mendicant -- (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)


• beggar, mendicant -- (a pauper who lives by begging)

Overview of adj mendicant

The adj mendicant has 1 sense

• mendicant -- (practicing beggary; "mendicant friars")