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Mender

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• Mendes

  [men-dee] /ˈmɛn di/ noun, plural Mendes (especially collectively) Mende for 1. 1. a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 2. a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people. /ˈmɛndɛz/ noun 1. Sam(uel) (Alexander). born 1965, British theatre and film director, who made his name as artistic director […]

• Mendes-france

  [men-dis-frans, -frahns; French mahn-des-frahns] /ˈmɛn dɪsˈfræns, -ˈfrɑns; French mɑ̃ dɛsˈfrɑ̃s/ noun 1. Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55. /French mɛ̃dɛsfrɑ̃s/ noun 1. Pierre (pjɛr). 1907–82, French statesman; prime minister (1954–55). He concluded the war in Indochina and granted independence to Tunisia

• Mendicancy

  [men-di-kuh n-see] /ˈmɛn dɪ kən si/ noun 1. the practice of begging, as for alms. 2. the state or condition of being a beggar. n. “state or condition of beggary,” 1790, from mendicant + -cy. Also in this sense was mendicity (c.1400), from Old French mendicité “begging,” from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas) “beggary, mendicity.”

• Mendicant

  [men-di-kuh nt] /ˈmɛn dɪ kənt/ adjective 1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms. 2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar. noun 3. a person who lives by begging; beggar. 4. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms. /ˈmɛndɪkənt/ adjective 1. begging 2. […]

• Mendicity

  [men-dis-i-tee] /mɛnˈdɪs ɪ ti/ noun 1. .

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