Definitions for postulant

postulant pos·tu·lant

Spelling: [pos-chuh-luh nt]
IPA: /ˈpɒs tʃə lənt/

Postulant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 418 anagrams from letters in postulant (alnopsttu).

Definitions for postulant

noun

  1. a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
  2. a person who asks or applies for something.

Origin of postulant

1750-60; French Latin postulant- (stem of postulāns), present participle of postulāre to ask for, claim, require

Examples for postulant

Quite often during my postulant period, while I was learning these Latin prayers, I would have to do sewing.

There are degrees in the struggle for saintliness; the journalist was but a postulant.

Certainly, after such trials, the postulant is fully informed; nevertheless, his superiors contribute what they know.

I was the postulant, dumb before the mysteries; I adored without a thought.

One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for four.

The postulant, after receiving these three ordinations, becomes a full monk or Ho-shang and takes a new name.

No one can become a postulant for admission to the Society until fourteen years old, unless by special dispensation.

"But Juanita is not a postulant," said Sarrion, with a laugh.

Mark concerned himself less with his own reception as a postulant.

She trembled like a postulant when she wrote the Greek alphabet for the first time.

Word Value for postulant
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

Similar words for postulant
Word of the day