what does monastic mean?
MONASTIC as NOUN
- Meaning
- a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
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Hypernyms(s) monastic is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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MONASTIC as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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