monastic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

   new monastic people

2. 2
   adj

   of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

3. 3
   noun

   a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

4. 4
   noun

   A person with monastic ways; a monk.

Etymology

From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.