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monk 音标拼音: [m'ʌŋk] n. 修道士,僧侣,和尚 修道士,僧侣,和尚 monk n 1: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [ synonym: { monk}, { monastic}] 2: United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style ( 1917- 1982) [ synonym: { Monk}, { Thelonious Monk}, { Thelonious Sphere Monk}] Monk \ Monk\, n. [ AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. ?, fr. mo` nos alone. Cf. { Monachism}.] 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. " A monk out of his cloister." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. -- Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Print.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Zool.) ( a) A South American monkey ({ Pithecia monachus}); also applied to other species, as { Cebus xanthocephalus}. ( b) The European bullfinch. [ 1913 Webster] { Monk bat} ( Zool.), a South American and West Indian bat ({ Molossus nasutus}); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves. { Monk bird}( Zool.), the friar bird. { Monk seal} ( Zool.), a species of seal ({ Monachus albiventer}) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. { Monk' s rhubarb} ( Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called { patience} ({ Rumex Patientia}). [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " monk": Cape polecat, abbacomes, abbot, ape, ascetic, bar, beadsman, bear, brother, caloyer, cavy, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, chimp, chimpanzee, coenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coon, ferret, foumart, friar, glutton, grand prior, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamist, misogynist, monastic, monkey, mousehound, nun, opossum, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, priest, prior, quill pig, raccoon, religieux, religious, single, skunk, stylite, unmarried, weasel, whistle- pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril
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