Piarist

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(pīər ist)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Pi•a•rist  (pīər ist),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Education, Religiona member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
  • Neo-Latin piār(um), in phrase (patrēs scholārum) piārum (fathers) of religious (schools) + -ist
  • 1835–45


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