- a member of a religious group of men who often live apart from other people in a monastery and who do not marry or have personal possessions
- Benedictine/Buddhist monks
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- Buddhist
- Tibetan
- Zen
- …
- become
- chant
Word OriginOld English munuc, based on Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, from monos ‘alone’.Definitions on the go
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