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1. (adj.) monastic
of or pertaining to monks, nuns, or monasteries: monastic vows.
2. monastic
of or resembling the secluded, dedicated, or austere life characteristic of a monastery.
3. (n.) monastic
a member of a monastic community or order, esp. a monk.
Etymology: (1400–50; < LL monasticus < LGk monastikós; see monastery , -tic)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) monk, monastic
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
2. (adj) cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) monastic
alt. of Monastical
2. (noun) monastic
a monk
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Sense: of, or like, monks or monasteries
the monastic way of life.
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 Afrikaans: kloosterlik |
 Arabic: دَيْري، رَهْباني |
 Bulgarian: манастирски |
 Brazilian: monástico |
 Czech: klášterní |
 German: klösterlich |
 Danish: klosteragtig; kloster- |
 Greek: μοναστικός |
 Spanish: monástico |
 Estonian: munga-, kloostri- |
 Farsi: رهبانى |
 Finnish: luostari- |
 French: monastique |
 Hebrew: חַיֵי נָזִיר |
 Hindi: आश्रम संबंधी |
 Croatian: manastirski |
 Hungarian: kolostori |
 Indonesian: mengenai biara |
 Icelandic: klaustur-; munka- |
 Italian: monastico |
 Japanese: 修道院の |
 Korean: 수도사와 같은 |
 Lithuanian: vienuoliškas, vienuolynų |
 Latvian: klostera- |
 Malay: amat sederhana |
 Dutch: kloosterlijk |
 Norwegian: munke-, kloster- |
 Polish: klasztorny, zakonny |
 Persian: كسيكه مشغول عبادت در خانق |
 Pashto: راهب |
 Portuguese: monástico |
 Romanian: monastic |
 Russian: монашеский;монастырский |
 Slovak: kláštorný |
 Slovenian: samostanski |
 Serbian: manastirski |
 Swedish: kloster-, munk- |
 Thai: เกี่ยวกับพระหรือที่อยู่ขอ |
 Turkish: manastır hayatına ait |
 Taiwanese: 修道院的 |
 Ukrainian: монастирський; чернечий |
 Urdu: راہبانہ ، خانقاہی |
 Vietnamese: thuộc tu viện |
 Chinese: 修道院的 |
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