Monk - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|mʌŋk|
Brit.
|mʌŋk|
noun
- a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work (syn: monastic)
- United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
- United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
Extra examples
...the holy monk spent many hours on his knees in prayer...
...the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk...
...after his transfiguration into a Buddhist monk, all his family and friends were amazed by his newly found patience and tranquillity...
He had chosen to live the life of a monk.
He became a monk after seeing Saint Apollinaris in a vision.
Neither wimpled nun nor cowled monk.
Word forms
noun
singular: monk
plural: monks
singular: monk
plural: monks
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