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monks
- Men under religious vows who live in a community and whose work is usually centered on their community, which is called a monastery. Buddhism and Christianity have notable groups of monks. In Christianity, the monks are members of religious orders .
Example Sentences
Nicky used to work as a chef at the Lake Shrine, cooking for the monks and lay people at the retreat center.
Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed.
The monks were great company and bracingly undogmatic; they were confident each of us would find what we needed here, whatever names we chose to give to it.
Spectators don their finest fancy dress: There are monks and nuns, bananas and vegetables, traffic cones and dart boards, cartoon characters and Vikings.
But it was destroyed after the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536, when the last abbot and three monks were executed.
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