bernardine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.
adj
Of or pertaining to other religious orders known as the Bernadines, such as the Bernadines of the Precious Blood
noun
A Cistercian monk.
noun
A member of various other religious orders known as the Bernardines
name
A female given name from French.
Example Sentences
- "Mother Mary Bernardine Purcell, Councilor General of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union in the United States of America, died yesterday in Stella Maris Hospice."
- "The target, the sources said, was Jennifer E. Dohrn, 32 years old, a sister of Bernardine Rae Dohrn, one of the principal members of the Weather Underground, a collection of fugitive terrorists that has taken responsibility for numerous bombings in this country."
- "Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the literary award, talks about her mission to write about the African diaspora and why her novel involves 12 interconnected characters."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French