English to Greek Meaning of monk - καλόγερος

Monk :

καλόγερος

noun

καλόγερος, μοναστικός, ερημίτης, Conventual, ασκητής

Monk :: καλόγεροςMonkish :: καλογηρικόςMonks :: μοναχοί

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Definitions of monk in English

Noun(1) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work(2) United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982

Examples of monk in English

(1) He spent two years as a monk in Germany and then became secretary to a French bishop.(2) to live like a monk(3) As a teenager, he was set on becoming a Franciscan monk until he took high school acting lessons.(4) He declared that it was his last mathematics book, and entered the Benedictine Order as a monk .(5) He wanted to be a monk , not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.(6) He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.(7) He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a monk by the Dalai Lama and now teaches at Columbia University.(8) Benedictine monk(9) He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.(10) All the community of Evesham was there, every monk and lay brother eager to greet their donors.(11) Libertarian ideas, he thought, were like a delicate candle flame ever threatening to gutter; they could only be tended to monkishly by a tiny and obscure remnant.(12) Paul aims to write the P.C. version of his life, an untrue confession that squares his late-in-life monkishness with his youthful travels as a young squire.(13) They were originally built for a community of monks from Val des Choux in Burgundy.(14) He still works long hours and lives monkishly up near the Housatonic River in Connecticut.(15) Priests and monks had to follow a strictly regimented set of activities every day.(16) For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.

Related Phrases of monk

(1) a monk ::

ένας μοναχός

(2) monk seal ::

φώκια

(3) offer food to monk ::

προσφέρουν φαγητό σε μοναχό

(4) eminent monk ::

επιφανείς μοναχός

Related Phrases of monk

(1) a monk ::

ένας μοναχός

(2) monk seal ::

φώκια

(3) offer food to monk ::

προσφέρουν φαγητό σε μοναχό

(4) eminent monk ::

επιφανείς μοναχός

Synonyms

Noun

1. brother ::

αδελφός

2. religious ::

θρησκευτικός

3. cenobite ::

cenobite

4. contemplative ::

στοχαστικός

5. mendicant ::

επαίτης

6. friar ::

μοναχός

7. abbot ::

ηγούμενος

8. prior ::

πριν

9. novice ::

αρχάριος

10. oblate ::

καθιερωμένος

11. postulant ::

υποψήφιος

12. lama ::

ιερέας του βούδα

13. marabout ::

μποά

Different Forms

monk, monkish, monks

Word Example from TV Shows

I am a MONK.

Vikings Season 1, Episode 3

You wanna renounce your earthly possessions and become a MONK?

Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 12

I was a Christian MONK in England.

Vikings Season 1, Episode 8

MONK: This is the end!

Vikings Season 1, Episode 2

Examples of monk from TV Shows

I am a MONK.

Vikings Season 1, Episode 3

You wanna renounce your earthly possessions and become a MONK?

Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 12

I was a Christian MONK in England.

Vikings Season 1, Episode 8

MONK: This is the end!

Vikings Season 1, Episode 2

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