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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work;
[syn: monk, monastic]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows;
[syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, n.
   A monk.
   [1913 Webster] Monastic


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?
   monk: cf. F. monastique. See Monastery.]
   1. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants,
      rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion;
      recluse. "A life monastic." --Denham.
      [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "monastic":
   abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire,
   celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual,
   conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach,
   lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamic, misogamist,
   misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monasterial, monk, monkish, nun,
   palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, religieux,
   religious, single, stylite, unmarried