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monk
CEFRB1
/mʌŋk/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A man who lives in a religious community and follows special rules.
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noun
Extra detailIn earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
Examples
He practices austerities almost like a monk.
I think I want to be a monk.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
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- Citations
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsSomeone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
More examples
In contextI am a monk.
It seems that the big monk up on the roof is nobody but Bongo, who is a gorilla belonging to the circus, and one of the very few gorillas of any account in this country, or anywhere else, as far as this goes, because good gorillas are very scarce, indeed.
In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
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Origin
noun
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”).