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

synonym: monk.

Dutch: broeder, cenobiet, convers, frater, kloosterbroeder, kloosterling, lekenbroeder, monnik, ordebroeder
Polish: mnich

Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.

synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical.

Roget 995: ecclesiastical, ecclesiological^†; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular^†, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, episcopalian; canonical; monastic, monachal^†; monkish; abbatial^†, abbatical^†; Anglican^†; pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish; ultramontane, priest-ridden.    ... show more

Roget 1000: claustral, cloistered; monastic, monasterial; conventual.