[
US
/ˈməŋk/
]
[ UK /mˈʌnk/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌnk/ ]
NOUN
- United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
How To Use Monk In A Sentence
- I call him the little weasel, a little northern monkey. Times, Sunday Times
- This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
- It shows a stag hunt, accompanied by more unlikely woodland animals such as a monkey and a tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
- I instead made use of the Cluebat and asked Mike for an insight check, which revealed that the Crane's claw was still over the pool and that Vorian (Mike's monk) was within walking distance of the crane's controls. Critical Hits
- So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line.
- Along the rocky paths Buddhist monks appear like ghosts and vanish mysteriously into the trees.
- But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century. Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
- A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.