monk

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A member of a religious community of men who typically live under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

• The monk spent hours in silent meditation each day.
• Buddhist monks in orange robes walked through the village.
• He decided to become a monk and live in the monastery.
• Medieval manuscripts reveal that the monk responsible for copying scientific texts often added marginal notes questioning Aristotelian physics.
• Anthropological research suggests that becoming a monk in certain Southeast Asian cultures functions as a temporary rite of passage rather than a lifelong commitment.
• The historian emphasized that European monasteries depended on the agricultural labor of each monk to sustain their economic independence during feudal times.

Eş anlamlılar: friar, brother, religious, monastic, cenobite

Zıt anlamlılar: layperson, secular