Priest vs. Monk

Priestnoun

a religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple

Priestnoun

a blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish

Priestnoun

(Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood

Priestverb

(transitive) To ordain as a priest.

Priestnoun

A presbyter elder; a minister

Priestnoun

One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

Priestverb

To ordain as priest.

Priestnoun

a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

Priestnoun

a spiritual leader in a non-Christian religion

Priestnoun

an ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church, authorized to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments

Priestnoun

a person who performs religious ceremonies and duties in a non-Christian religion

Priestnoun

a mallet used to kill fish caught when angling.

Priestverb

ordain to the priesthood

Priest

A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.

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.