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Definition of monk in English: monknoun mʌŋk A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Example sentencesExamples - They were originally built for a community of monks from Val des Choux in Burgundy.
- On the right side of the pyramid was the monastery, with its abbot and his subordinate monks.
- He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
- Both forms of ordination require a quorum of five ordained monks or nuns with a minimum of ten years in the Order.
- All the community of Evesham was there, every monk and lay brother eager to greet their donors.
- My thoughts turned to the Priory, and the monks who lived in peace and poverty there.
- One by one the monks glided from the church, each stopping to kiss the most sacred icons as they went.
- He declared that it was his last mathematics book, and entered the Benedictine Order as a monk.
- He spent two years as a monk in Germany and then became secretary to a French bishop.
- He wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.
- He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.
- He was nudged awake by one member of a line of Buddhist monks who were making their daily alms run.
- When a group of Dominican monks founded a house in the rue St Jacques in Paris they became known as Jacobins.
- The emperor assumed the authority to make rules for the communities of Buddhist monks.
- He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a monk by the Dalai Lama and now teaches at Columbia University.
- He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
- Many of the alms will be donated to monks at the temple, as well as to the novices to use during their stay.
- As a teenager, he was set on becoming a Franciscan monk until he took high school acting lessons.
- Priests and monks had to follow a strictly regimented set of activities every day.
- The temple takes its name from the Knights Templar, an order of warrior monks.
Synonyms brother, male member of a religious order, religious, contemplative friar abbot, prior novice, oblate, postulant Benedictine, Black Monk, Cluniac, Carthusian, Cistercian, White Monk, Culdee Buddhism lama, talapoin Islam marabout historical mendicant rare cenobite, cloisterer, religioner, religieux
Derivatives noun ˈmʌŋkhʊd adjective ˈmʌŋkɪʃˈməŋkɪʃ Relating to or characteristic of a monk or monks. he alternated bouts of bohemian conviviality with long periods of monkish solitude Example sentencesExamples - this congregation of Cluny was the first great monkish order in the West
- An intensely private man, almost monkish in his devotion to solitude, he apologetically explained, ‘There's a stillness there I want to preserve.’
- To walk into the main gallery was to encounter a meditative environment that seemed austere and monkish.
- The Orthodox Church offers a characteristic mix of monkish asceticism, mystical exaltation, and a special cult of beauty.
adverb ˈmʌŋkɪʃliˈməŋkɪʃli Libertarian ideas, he thought, were like a delicate candle flame ever threatening to gutter; they could only be tended to monkishly by a tiny and obscure remnant. Example sentencesExamples - There's something monkishly self-denying about his dedication to the pursuit of perfection.
- The exhibition was elegantly cool, monkishly quiet and very deliberate, just as one imagines Opalka must be: resolved, accepting, and making every moment count.
noun ˈmʌŋkɪʃnəsˈməŋkɪʃnəs Paul aims to write the P.C. version of his life, an untrue confession that squares his late-in-life monkishness with his youthful travels as a young squire.
adjective
Origin Old English munuc, based on Greek monakhos 'solitary', from monos 'alone'. monarch from Late Middle English: The word monarch comes via late Latin from Greek monarkhēs, from monos ‘alone’ and arkhein ‘to rule’. Monos also lies behind monastery (Late Middle English) which comes from monazein ‘to live alone’, while monk (Old English) comes from monakos ‘solitary’.
Rhymes bunk, chunk, clunk, drunk, dunk, flunk, funk, gunk, hunk, Monck, plunk, shrunk, skunk, slunk, stunk, sunk, thunk, trunk nounməNGkməŋk A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Example sentencesExamples - The emperor assumed the authority to make rules for the communities of Buddhist monks.
- The temple takes its name from the Knights Templar, an order of warrior monks.
- He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
- One by one the monks glided from the church, each stopping to kiss the most sacred icons as they went.
- Many of the alms will be donated to monks at the temple, as well as to the novices to use during their stay.
- Both forms of ordination require a quorum of five ordained monks or nuns with a minimum of ten years in the Order.
- He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
- He declared that it was his last mathematics book, and entered the Benedictine Order as a monk.
- As a teenager, he was set on becoming a Franciscan monk until he took high school acting lessons.
- All the community of Evesham was there, every monk and lay brother eager to greet their donors.
- He spent two years as a monk in Germany and then became secretary to a French bishop.
- He was nudged awake by one member of a line of Buddhist monks who were making their daily alms run.
- He wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.
- When a group of Dominican monks founded a house in the rue St Jacques in Paris they became known as Jacobins.
- My thoughts turned to the Priory, and the monks who lived in peace and poverty there.
- Priests and monks had to follow a strictly regimented set of activities every day.
- He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.
- On the right side of the pyramid was the monastery, with its abbot and his subordinate monks.
- They were originally built for a community of monks from Val des Choux in Burgundy.
- He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a monk by the Dalai Lama and now teaches at Columbia University.
Synonyms brother, male member of a religious order, religious, contemplative
Origin Old English munuc, based on Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, from monos ‘alone’. nounməNGkməŋk in phrase have a monk on" or "get a monk onNorthern English informal Be or get annoyed; be in a bad mood. everyone at work seems to have a monk on today don't get a monk on, mate I've just got a munk on tonight—no real reason for it
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