Definition of "monk" []

• A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order: a Carthusian monk; a Buddhist monk. (noun)

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• "Jackson - "The monk is just someone who's sort of taken up a curatorship.""
• "I recently had the great fortune of sharing the afternoon with Sifu Wang Bo, a Shaolin monk who was 11 years old when on tour with "Wheel of Life.""
• "Kung Fu star David Carradine dead p2pnet news view Movies | TV: - In the famous Kung Fu TV series, Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine travels slowly through the old American West, armed only with his skill in the martial arts — and a bamboo flute — as he searches for half-brother Danny Caine."