1. A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order: a Carthusian monk; a buddhist monk.

1. A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
2. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
3. A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
4. an unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
5. A judge.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
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5. A south american monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
6. the european bullfinch.

1. originally, a man who retired from the world for religious meditation and the practice of religious duties in solitude; a religious hermit; in later use, a member of a community or fraternity of men formed for the practice of religious devotions and duties, and bound by the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior; specifically, a regular male denizen of a monastery.
2. A name of various animals.
3. in printing, an over-inked spot or blotch in print, usually made by imperfect distribution of ink. compare friar, 2.
4. Milit., a fuse for firing mines.
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1. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
2. united states jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)