From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Religionmonkmonk /mʌŋk/ noun [countable]RRa member of an all-male religious group that lives apart from other people in a monastery → nun —monkish adjectiveExamples from the Corpusmonk• This was a panel showing a sturdybaldmonkleering at a geisha.• Benedict and lived all his days as a devoutmonk.• Each monk received good clothing, although bathing took place only irregularly unless they were ill.• But at least there were no monks in there praying either.• And the next thing he remembered was the minibus stopping and the monks helping him into it.• Throughout the centuries, the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiderssailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city.• The income from admission fees helps the monksfinance a lifestyle that might otherwise be impossible in the modern world.• The warriormonks, they were known as.OriginmonkOld Englishmunuc, from Late Latinmonachus, from Greekmonos; → MONO-