monastic

About 3.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

   new monastic people

2. noun A person with monastic ways; a monk.

Similar words

monk cloistered monastical cloistral conventual unworldly monastery ascetic hermitic eremitic

Often followed by

life orders order community and vows communities buildings institutions discipline

Word family

monastically monasticism monasticisms monastics