Meaning of fra | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A title of a friar or monk: brother.
2. Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
4. Short form of Francis.

Equivalents

Examples

“You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.”

“The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]”

“"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.”

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