monk
noun
[ mʌŋk ]
• a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Similar:
brother,
religious,
contemplative,
friar,
abbot,
prior,
novice,
oblate,
postulant,
Benedictine,
Black Monk,
Cluniac,
Carthusian,
Cistercian,
White Monk,
Culdee,
lama,
talapoin,
marabout,
mendicant,
cenobite,
cloisterer,
religioner,
religieux,
Origin:
Old English munuc, based on Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, from monos ‘alone’.
