Definitions
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
Word origin
From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).
Used in a sentence
“In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]”
“"Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"”
“Good people, if you're ever short of a job, don't take up monking for a living.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Monastery resident”4 letters
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