Monk vs. Friar

Monknoun

A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.

Monknoun

in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.

Monknoun

(slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.

Monknoun

(slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.

Monknoun

(slang) A judge.

Monknoun

(printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

Monknoun

A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

Monknoun

A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.

Monknoun

The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

Monknoun

The monkfish.

Monknoun

(historical) A fuse for firing mines.

Monkverb

To be a monk.

Monkverb

To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.

Monkverb

To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.

Monkverb

To be intoxicated or confused.

Monkverb

To be attached in a way that sticks out.

Monknoun

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.

Monknoun

A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

Monknoun

A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

Monknoun

A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.

Monknoun

a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

Monknoun

United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

Monk

A monk (, from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, via Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedicate his life to serving all other living beings, or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live his or her life in prayer and contemplation.

Friarnoun

A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).

Friarnoun

A white or pale patch on a printed page.

Friarnoun

An American fish, the silverside.

Friarnoun

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

Friarnoun

A white or pale patch on a printed page.

Friarnoun

An American fish; the silversides.

Friarnoun

a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms

Friar

A friar is a brother and a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians and Carmelites.