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monk
  1. A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
  2. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
  3. (slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
  4. (slang) A judge.
  5. (printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
  6. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
  7. A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
  8. The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
  9. The monkfish.
  10. Synonyms:
      11. brother, friar, religious, contemplative, novice, oblate, postulant, abbot, Benedictine, Carthusian, cenobite, Cistercian, Cluniac, Culdee, lama, marabout, monastic, prior, talapoin, anchorite, ascetic, cloisterer, eremite, hermit, mendicant, priest, recluse, religieux, religioner, solitary, Black Monk, White Monk, holy man, male member of a religious order, Buddhist monk, regular, cleric, caloyer, Dominican, Carmelite, clergyman, Augustine, Franciscan, Minorite, Servite, Augustinian, Capuchin, Father, frater, Black Friar … more
  11. Examples:
      12. “The magistrates headed out to investigate, and met Nobu, a monk from the Shrine of the Seven Thunders.”
monkery
  1. (pejorative) the practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life
  2. (pejorative) monasticism
  3. (pejorative) a monastery
  4. (dated, collectively) monks, considered as a group. (cf clergy, laity)
  5. Examples:
      6. “Fructuosus, who died about 665, displayed when a mere child a genius for monkery.”
      “Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?”
      “One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.”
monklet
  1. A young monk; a novice
  2. A bird of the species Micromonacha lanceolata
  3. Synonyms:
      4. lanceolated monklet
monkhood
  1. The state of being a monk.
  2. Monks collectively.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. celibacy, chastity, virginity, chasteness, purity, continence, abstinence, maidenhood, singleness, virtue, maidenhead, spinsterhood, bachelorhood, asceticism, abstention, frigidity, sexlessness, abnegation, monasticism, nunhood, self-restraint, self-denial, unmarried state, single blessedness, isolation, seclusion, solitude, segregation, sequestration, solitariness, separation, insulation, detachment, quarantine, secludedness, separateness, retirement, privateness, withdrawal, reclusiveness, retreat, reclusion, concealment, remoteness, confinement, disconnection, closeting, hiding, protection, desolation … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It bids a man, if he strives after perfection, abandon the world and lead a life of monkhood.”
      “I found, too, that a lofty idea prevails in Ceylon in regard to the status of the monkhood.”
      “The same word is used for admission to the first level of Buddhist monkhood.”
monkess
  1. (rare) A female monk; a nun.
monkishness
  1. The state or condition of being monkish.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. asceticism, abstinence, continence, chastity, abstemiousness, puritanism, severity, austerity, simplicity, strictness, rigour, frugality, harshness, hermitism, monasticism, plainness, reclusiveness, solitude, anchorism, rigor, rigorousness, starkness, self-denial, self-discipline, non-indulgence, self-abnegation, self-mortification, self-restraint, other-worldliness, a hair shirt, a spartan life, mortification of the flesh … more
monking
  1. The work or life of a monk.
monkings
  1. plural of monking
monklets
  1. plural of monklet
monkeries
  1. plural of monkery
monkesses
  1. plural of monkess
monks
  1. plural of monk
  2. Synonyms:
      3. brothers, friars, religious, contemplatives, novices, oblates, postulants, abbots, Benedictines, Carthusians, cenobites, Cistercians, Cluniacs, Culdees, lamas, marabouts, monastics, priors, talapoins, anchorites, ascetics, cloisterers, eremites, hermits, mendicants, priests, recluses, religieux, religioners, solitary, Black Monks, Buddhist monks, caloyers, regulars, clerics, clergymen, Servites, Dominicans, Carmelites, White Friars, Franciscans, fraters, Minorites, Augustinians, forest dwellers, renunciants … more
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