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• The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.From the entry religion
• A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.From the entry dead
• Many scholars consider the stories of the monk Teilo to be apocryphal.From the entry apocryphal
• Thomas Merton was a monk in the Order of Cistertians of the Strict Observance.From the entry observance
• The monk was remembered as a beneficent figure in the village.From the entry beneficent
• The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.From the entry edged
• Remember not to enter the monastery; those monks can be real moutons enragés.From the entry mouton enragé
• The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.From the entry screen time
• It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.From the entry habit
• The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.From the entry nones
• The monk took a vow of chastity.From the entry chastity
• In feudal days lay brothers were usually uneducated commoners, who did most menial, manual labor while the learned priestly monks held the more spiritual jobs.From the entry lay brother
• The monk bat is a molossine.From the entry molossine
• St. Stergos was an idiorrhythmic monk.From the entry idiorrhythmic
• There were enough blazing babes in the place to give a monk a hard-on on sight.2023, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, page 16. From the entry blazing
• Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had.2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition. From the entry sea monk
• Do these two images represent the two competing monkhoods: the village dwelling monks and the forest mendicants?2014, Geok Goh, The Wheel-Turner and His House: Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene, page 116. From the entry monkhood
• This is why Tibetan Buddhist monks only wear robes, while we dongbas wear robes and pants.2014, Marie-Rose Phan-Le, Talking Story: One Woman's Quest to Preserve Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions, →ISBN. From the entry dongba
• There’s even Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury.2013 March 25, David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" in The New Yorker. From the entry detective
• A monk once asked Master Joshu, 'Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?' Joshu said, 'Mu!'2010, Joan Price, Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions, page 70. From the entry mu
• I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk."2010, Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168. From the entry Ninghsia
• It has been suggested that perhaps the author was the monk Gregory Aneponymous.2010, Katerina Ierodiakonou et al., “Early Byzantine Philosophy”, in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume II…. From the entry aneponymous
• Tabyi-daw, Hiroko Kawanami observes, is a gender-free term of self-address used when speaking to monks.2007, Ingrid Jordt, Burma's mass lay meditation movement, page 160. From the entry gender-free
• In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals.2005, J. Patrick Greene, Medieval Monasteries, page 56. From the entry exhumer
• When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven!1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius…. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
• The emperor's emissaries returned from Khotan in six years with Buddhist monks, classics (sutras) and ikons.1973 February 18, “Taiwan's contemplative religion”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 6, Taipei, page 2. From the entry Khotan
• He could outeat, outdrink, and outbelch any monk from Tashilhunpo to Kumbum.1935, Gordon Bandy Enders, Edward Anthony, Nowhere Else in the World, page 102. From the entry outbelch

Meaning of monk

1. noun A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
2. noun In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
3. noun Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.

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How do you use monk in a sentence?

Monk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.”

What is a short sentence with monk?

“St. Stergos was an idiorrhythmic monk.”

What does monk mean?

Monk means a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.