Definitions for monastics

monastics mo·nas·tic

Spelling: [muh-nas-tik]
IPA: /məˈnæs tɪk/

Monastics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 594 anagrams from letters in monastics (acimnosst).

Definitions for monastics

noun

  1. a member of a monastic community or order, especially a monk.

adjective

  1. of or relating to monasteries:
  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of monks or nuns, their manner of life, or their religious obligations:
  3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a secluded, dedicated, or austere manner of living.

Origin of monastics

1400-50; late Middle English monastik Late Latin monasticus Late Greek monastikós, equivalent to monas- (verbid stem of monázein to be alone; see mon-) + -ikos

Examples for monastics

We will now see the monks at work, and spend a day with them in their monastic home.

You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.

There's a monastic simplicity about this joint that endears it to me.

But with the passage of centuries the church and monastic building of Sta.

This should be manifestly clear this morning even to the most monastic heirs of David Broder.

Many were the efforts to reform the abuses which crept into the monastic houses.

A Youtube video of some jet-setting Buddhist monks has Thailand scrambling to crack down on materialism in the monastic ranks.

Christianity spawned the monastic movement, originally in Egypt, that insisted upon peace, self-reliance, education and charity.

But his period of monastic seclusion officially comes to an end on Thursday.

The rest of the monastic buildings have been in ruins since the siege of 1832.

Word Value for monastics
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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