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noun (n)

• a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  monastic
  

  source: wordnet30
• United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  thelonious monk, thelonious sphere monk
  

  source: wordnet30
• A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.(noun)

  source: webster1913