fra

1. A title of a friar or monk: brother.

   "She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.

   2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

   2 more examples

   You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.

   a. 1883 (date written; first published 1883 January), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prologue at Ischia”, in Michael Angelo: A Dramatic Poem, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1884, →OCLC, part first, page 9

   The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]

   1908, Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America

1. archaicnot comparableArchaic form of fro.

plural Fras

1. a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother

1. Short form of Francis.

plural FRAs

1. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of forward-rate agreement.