: a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery
also
: friar
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The monks do as recommended, practicing loving-kindness meditation for several weeks.
—Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025
The Kumbh Mela festival, which is rotated among four cities every three years, is known for the massive number of Hindu devotees who attend, including monks and ascetics from various orders of Hinduism and ordinary pilgrims.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
At the other end of Eilean Mòr, past a mossy Celtic cross standing like a lighthouse at the island’s tallest point, Sandy showed us the Cave of Saint Cormac, its opening hardly more than four feet high, where eighth-century monks used to retreat for periods of secluded contemplation.
—Leslie Jamison, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The monks do as recommended, practicing loving-kindness meditation for several weeks.
—Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025
The Kumbh Mela festival, which is rotated among four cities every three years, is known for the massive number of Hindu devotees who attend, including monks and ascetics from various orders of Hinduism and ordinary pilgrims.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
At the other end of Eilean Mòr, past a mossy Celtic cross standing like a lighthouse at the island’s tallest point, Sandy showed us the Cave of Saint Cormac, its opening hardly more than four feet high, where eighth-century monks used to retreat for periods of secluded contemplation.
—Leslie Jamison, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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