monk

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  1. noun A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order: a Carthusian monk; a Buddhist monk.

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  • This monk was an excellent cartographer, or map-maker, and Christopher wished to talk with him about the western lands. —  Christopher Columbus
  • His utter abjectness may have awakened in the monkey a feeling of kinship, for the monk was a grotesque little beast, moldy as an old hair sofa, scarred from quivering nose to twitching tail-tip by the missiles it had failed to duck during its precarious life among humans. —  AdventureTales#1
  • Now in his eighties, the monk was anxious to ensure the continuity of his collection and was convinced that it should come to England. —  Japundit - Published news
  • I can add that the monk was a great admirer of Dracula. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • He hurried noiselessly to his place, but to his astonishment he found that another monk was there; he touched him lightly on the shoulder, and strange to tell, the man he saw was unknown to him. —  Legends of the Rhine
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  1. Middle English munk, from Old English munuc, from Late Latin monachus, from Late Greek monakhos, from Greek, single, from monos; see men-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also munk, monck, munck; from Middle English monk, monke, munke, monek, munek, munec, from Anglo-Saxon munec, munuc = Old Saxon munek, monek = OFries. munek, munik, monik = Middle Dutch monick, munck, Dutch monnik = Middle Low German monnik, monnek, monk, monnink = Old High German munich, Middle High German münech, münich, German mönch = Icelandic mūnkr = Swedish Danish munk = Italian monaco, from Late Latin monachus, from LGr. μοναχός, a monk, from μοναχός, living alone, solitary (cf. Old French moigne, French moine = Provencal monge = Catalan monjo = Spanish monje = Portuguese monge, a monk, from Late Latin as if *monius, from Greek μονιός, solitary), from μόνος, alone, single: see monad. Cf. monastery and minster, from the same source.
 

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