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MONK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
Synonyms:
monastic; monk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("monk" is a kind of...):
religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monk"):
Brother ((Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address)
Carthusian (a member of the Carthusian order)
Cistercian; Trappist (member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence)
Instance hyponyms:
Bacon; Roger Bacon (English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292))
Benedict; Saint Benedict; St. Benedict (Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547))
Gregor Mendel; Johann Mendel; Mendel (Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884))
Pelagius (a British or Irish monk who denied the doctrines of original sin and predestination and defended human goodness and free will; his views were declared heretical by the Council of Ephesus in 431 (circa 360-418))
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
Synonyms:
Monk; Thelonious Monk; Thelonious Sphere Monk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)
Context examples:
All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hast learned from the monks, I trow, to fear a woman as thou wouldst a lazar-house.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I can make some show at it,” said big John; “though I was scarce long enough among the monks to catch the whole trick of it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Looking up, he saw beside him his former cloister companion the renegade monk, Hordle John.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
First he must be a monk forsooth, and all because a wench was wise enough to turn her back on him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is a hospice of monks yonder, where you may see the roof among the trees, and there it was that Sir Roland was slain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You should know better, since I have heard that the monks of Beaulieu could squeeze a good cup of wine from their own grapes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am right glad, mon garcon, to see that the good monks have trained thee so wisely and so well.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Springing forward, he hurled his unwieldy weapon at brother Ambrose, and, as desk and monk clattered on to the floor together, he sprang through the open door and down the winding stair.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a few moments it opened again to admit a short square monk with a heavy, composed face and an authoritative manner.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
