Meaning of MONK in English

Use in sentences of MONK

Meaning of MONK in English

• A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
• A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
• A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
• A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
• The European bullfinch.

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Articles Related to ‘MONK’

• Monkey broke into my house
• Swami Vivekanand's Life
• Introduction of Think Like a Monk
• CHAPTER XLIX : MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT
• CHAPTER XXXVIII : CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MR. MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW
• CHAPTER XXXIX : INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER
• PHAROS: TIMOTHY THE CAT AND TIMOTHY WHITEBONNET