| Abbot 1. (n.) The head of a monastery. 2. (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. Thesaurus Entries 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 |