Definition of "cenobite" [cen•o•bite]

• A member of a convent or other religious community. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Gawie Hough, 42, battered twin months after the former driver of his cenobite Deon, 41, in danger him with the words: "I'll show we what we can do with the white man.""
• "Wandering Monk, Reluctant Gyrovague: I wanted to be a good monk, a stable cenobite, in a monastery under a Prioress."
• "Looking for “cenobite” on the dictionary was pointless, there was no Internet for me at the time, nobody I knew could help."