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Meaning of custos | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈkʌ.stɒs/

Definitions

  1. A warden.
    obsolete
  2. A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.
  3. In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line.
    historical

Equivalents

Deutsch Kustos
Español custodio
Français custode
Italiano custode
Polski kustosz
Português custodio

Examples

“[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye.”
“Mr. Tharp, the Custos of the parish, and several other gentlement, accompanied the corps.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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