Reverse Dictionary: MONK

 NOUNS – PERSON
► ABBEY-LOON an idler; a vagabond; orig. a lazy monk or hanger-on to a religious house → 1509 sl.
► ABBEY-LUBBER orig. (prior to the Reformation), a lazy monk or hanger-on to a religious house; a lazy loiterer who might work, but would not, preferring to depend on the charity of religious houses → 1509
► ABBEY MAN a member of a monastery; a monk → c1550
► BALDICOOT a monk: on account of his somber raiment and shaven crown → 1885 (Bk.)
► BERNARDINE a monk of the Benedictine or Cistercian order → 1676
► BETHLEHEMITE one of an order of monks existing in England in the 13th century; they wore a five-rayed star upon the breast, in memory of the star which announced the Nativity of Christ at Bethlehem → 1721 obs. (Bk.)
► BETHLEMITE one of an order of monks existing in England in the 13th century; they wore a five-rayed star upon the breast, in memory of the star which announced the Nativity of Christ at Bethlehem → 1721 obs. (Bk.)
► BLACK MONK a monk of the order of St. Benedict, so called from the colour of the habit worn; also, a Black or Augustinian Canon → 1297
► COWLIST one who wears a cowl; a monk → 1637 obs.
► GYROVAGUE a monk who was in the habit of wandering from monastery to monastery → 1801
► MONACH a monk → c1550
► MONASTIC a member of a monastic order; a monk → 1632
► MONK-CHILD a boy who is being brought up to be a monk → c1205 obs.
► PALMER a pilgrim who had returned from the Holy Land, in sign of which he carried a palm branch or palm leaf; also, an itinerant monk who travelled from shrine to shrine, under a perpetual vow of poverty; often used simply as an equivalent of ‘pilgrim’ → a1300
► TALAPOIN a Buddhist monk or priest → 1586