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monastery

English

Alternative forms

  • monasterie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French monastere, from Latin monast?rium, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (monast?rion, hermit's cell), from ????? (mónos, alone). Doublet of minster.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?n?st?i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?m?n?st??i/, /?m?n?st??i/

Noun

monastery (plural monasteries)

  1. Building for housing monks or others who have taken religious vows

Related terms

  • monasterial
  • monastic
  • monasticism

Translations

See also

  • abbey
  • cloister
  • convent
  • friary
  • minster

Anagrams

  • asteronym, myronates, nasometry, oysterman

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monk

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m??k/
  • Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin monachus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (monakhós, single, solitary), from ????? (mónos, alone).

Alternative forms

  • moncke (obsolete)

Noun

monk (plural monks)

  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) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
  5. (slang) A judge.
  6. (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.
  7. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
  8. A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
  9. The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
  10. The monkfish.
  11. (historical) A fuse for firing mines.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:recluse
Derived terms
  • Monk Bretton
  • Monk Fryston
  • monkette
Related terms
  • monastery
  • monastic
  • monasticism
Translations

Verb

monk (third-person singular simple present monks, present participle monking, simple past and past participle monked)

  1. To be a monk.
  2. To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
  3. To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
  4. To be intoxicated or confused.
  5. To be attached in a way that sticks out.

See also

Etymology 2

By shortening.

Noun

monk (plural monks)

  1. (colloquial) A monkey.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • monke

Etymology

From Old English munuc.

Noun

monk (plural monks)

  1. monk
    • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
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Descendants

  • English: monk

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mong, mang, from Proto-Germanic *mang? (crowd). Compare English among.

Preposition

monk

  1. among

Synonyms

  • monken

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