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monk

monk [ mungk ] (plural monks)


noun 
Definition:
 
man living in religious community: a man who withdraws entirely or in part from society and goes to live in a religious community to devote himself to prayer, solitude, and contemplation

[ Old English munuc, via Germanic < late Latin monachus< Greek monos "alone"]
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