Almoner

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who distributes alms.
  • n. Chiefly British A hospital social worker.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. one who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses;
  • n. one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop
  • n. a title given to a royal officer charged with the duty of distributing alms or bounty on behalf of a monarch
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.
  • n. A social worker in a hospital.
  • n. An official in a hospital whose job it is to calculate how much a patient must pay for treatment.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A dispenser of alms or charity; especially, a person charged with the distribution of alms as an official duty.
  • n. An alms-purse.
  • n. In general, a purse, especially a large purse, or pouch, usually (from the twelfth century until the fifteenth) hung from the girdle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients
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