paternosters

Meaning of paternosters

noun
  1. The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
  2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
  3. A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
  4. A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
  5. A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
  6. Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
  7. A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
  8. A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Information about paternosters

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of paternosters is: paternoster.
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Hyphenation of paternosters

pa-ter-nos-ters

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • paternosters is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Anagrams of paternosters

transportees

Words that rhyme with paternosters

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