a male member of a religious community living under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience; strictly it is confined to members of those bodies which live a communal life
A male member of a religious community who has taken vows of poverty (having no possessions), chastity (having no sexual relations) and obedience (accepting the authority of his abbot) A monk is dedicated to a life of prayer and contemplation in a closed community - monastery
(Gr Monachos; fem Monache) An individual who denies the world in order to live a religious life under the monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience See the article onMonasticism in the Orthodox Church
The Tibetans have novices and fully-ordained monks (Skt bhikshu) as in other Buddhist traditions The status of monk is respected, but it is not as central to the religious tradition in some ways as in the Theravadin countries, because of the greater importance of lay practice and particularly the role of the LAMA Note that most monks are not lamas, and lamas are not necessarily monks
in printing, is a black smear or blotch made by leaving too much ink on the part Caxton set up his printing-press in the scriptorium of Westminster Abbey; and the associations of this place gave rise to the slang expressions monk and friar for black and white defects (See Friar, Chapel ) Give a man a monk (French, Luy bailler le moyne) To do one a mischief Rabelais says that Grangousier (after the battle of Picrochole) asked what was become of Friar John; to which Gargantua replied, No doubt the enemy has the monk, alluding to the pugnacious feats of this wonderful churchman, who knocked men down like ninepins (Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel, book i 45 )
A monk is a member of a male religious community that is usually separated from the outside world. saffron-robed Buddhist monks. See George Monck. American jazz pianist and composer whose spare style and unusual harmonic sense made him one of the most influential modern jazz musicians. a member of an all-male religious group that lives apart from other people in a monastery nun. White Monk Monk Meredith Jane Monk Thelonious Sphere
A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)