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Origin:

Hebrew

Meaning:

Father

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(AB ut)   [Guide]

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In the Roman Catholic church, the abbot is the head of a community of monks. The title is somtimes used in rarer Protestant monastic communities. Traditionally, bearers of the surname "Abbott" would have been workers in an abbot's household, not descendants of an abbot.

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