adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- new monastic people
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
monastic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/məˈnæstɪk/
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rhymes with -æstɪk
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CMU ARPABET: M AH0 N AE1 S T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person with monastic ways; a monk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: monk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religious
Narrower terms: Brother, Carthusian, Trappist, Cistercian, Bacon, Roger Bacon, Benedict, Saint Benedict, St. Benedict, Mendel, Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel, Pelagius
History
Etymology
From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: վանական (vanakan) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Asturian: monásticu — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Asturian: monacal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Bulgarian: монашески (monašeski) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Catalan: monàstic — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Catalan: monacal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Chinese Mandarin: 修道院的 (xiūdàoyuàn de) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Czech: mnišský — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Dutch: monastiek — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Dutch: kloosterlijk — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Dutch: kloosterachtig — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Esperanto: monaĥa — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Finnish: luostari- — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Finnish: luostarimainen — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Finnish: munkki- — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Finnish: munkkimainen — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- French: monastique — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Friulian: monastic — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Friulian: monacâl — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Galician: monástico — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Galician: monacal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- German: mönchisch — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- German: klösterlich — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Greek: μοναστικός (monastikós) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Greek: μοναχικός (monachikós) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Hebrew: פרוש (paruš) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Hungarian: szerzetesi — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Hungarian: monasztikus — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Italian: monastico — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Italian: monacale — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Italian: fratesco — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Japanese: 修道院の (shūdōin no) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Korean: 수도원(修道院)의 (sudowon-ui) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Macedonian: мо́нашки (mónaški) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Macedonian: калу́ѓерски (kalúǵerski) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Macedonian: мана́стирски (manástirski) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Occitan: monastic — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Polish: monastyczny — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Polish: mnisi — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Portuguese: monacal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Portuguese: monástico — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Romanian: monastic — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Romanian: monahal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Russian: мона́шеский (monášeskij) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Russian: монасты́рский (monastýrskij) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Slovak: mníšsky — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Spanish: monástico — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Spanish: monacal — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Spanish: monjil — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Spanish: frailuno — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Swedish: kloster- — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Swedish: munk- — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Swedish: klosterlig — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Tocharian B: ṣamāññe — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Ukrainian: черне́чий (černéčyj) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Ukrainian: черне́цький (černécʹkyj) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Ukrainian: черни́чий (černýčyj) — of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Armenian: վանական (vanakan) — person with monastic ways
- Greek: μοναχός (monachós) — person with monastic ways
- Hungarian: szerzetes — person with monastic ways
- Polish: mnich — person with monastic ways
- Polish: mniszka — person with monastic ways
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