Do·min·i·can /dəˈmɪnɪkən/
 多明尼哥[國名]


 Do·min·i·can prop. a.  Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him.
 Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching.
 Dominican tertiaries the third order of St. Dominic. See Tertiary.


 Do·min·i·can, prop. n. Eccl. Hist. One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

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 Dominican
      adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican
             Republic or its people; "the Dominican population"
      2: of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order;
         "Dominican monks"
      n : a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the
          Dominican order [syn: Black Friar, Blackfriar, {friar
          preacher]