monk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A man who lives apart from the world in a religious community and has taken religious vows.

   The monks spend their mornings in prayer and silence.

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”).

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