monk 
monk [monk monks] BrE [mʌŋk] NAmE [mʌŋk] noun a member of a religious group of men who often live apart from other people in a ↑monastery and who do not marry or have personal possessions •Benedictine/Buddhist monks compare ↑friar, ↑nun see also ↑monkish Word Origin: Old English munuc, based on Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, from monos ‘alone’.
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