Crossword-Solution: MONK 4 letters, 161 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Monk	n.	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.
Monk	n.	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.
Monk	n.	A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
Monk	n.	A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
Monk	n.	The European bullfinch.

We have 161 clues for the answer “MONK”

Clue	Answers
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" figure	1 answer
"Name of the Rose" figure	1 answer
"Straight, No Chaser" jazzman	1 answer
2000s OCD-afflicted TV sleuth	1 answer
Round Midnight pianist	1 answer
A man who joins a religious order living in retirement	1 answer
Abbey denizen	1 answer
Abbot, for one	1 answer
Abstemious one, maybe	1 answer
Bebop pioneer	1 answer
Bop pioneer Thelonious	1 answer
Brother who may be an only child	1 answer
Caine on "kung fu", for one	1 answer
CanterburyTales pilgrim	1 answer
Cistercian or Trappist	1 answer
Cistercian, e.g.	1 answer
Cloister dweller.	1 answer
Coltrane collaborator	1 answer
Cowled one	1 answer
Fellow in a frock	1 answer
Figure in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"	1 answer
Fra, e.g.	1 answer
Fra, for one.	1 answer
Friar Tuck, e.g.	1 answer
Gregor Mendel's day job	1 answer
His life is in order	1 answer
Jazz great Thelonious	1 answer
Jazz pianist and composer	1 answer
Jazzman Thelonious	1 answer
Jazzman Thelonius	1 answer
Job on Martin Luther's résumé	1 answer
Lama or friar	1 answer
Lama, for example	1 answer
Lamasery member	1 answer
MALE community member living apart under religious vows	1 answer
Male member of religious order	1 answer
Man in a robe	1 answer
Man who takes vows	1 answer
Man with a tonsure	1 answer
Member of a holy order	1 answer
Member of the Benedictines	1 answer
Monastery inmate	1 answer
Musician Thelonious	1 answer
Neurotic TV detective	1 answer
Neurotic TV detective played by Tony Shalhoub	1 answer
OCD-beset TV sleuth	1 answer
One in a frock	1 answer
One in a hood	1 answer
One living a life of prayer	1 answer
One of many who led the 2007 "Saffron Revolution" protests in Myanmar	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with MONK (5)

Mezeriac, the life of Aesop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

CHAPTER II A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie, An outrider that loved venerie; A manly man, to be an Abbot able, Full many a daintie horse had he in stable: And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear, And eke as loud, as doth the chapell bell, There as this lord was keeper of the cell.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little “genre” pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Géricault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Then Ralph sprang up in his place, for he feared for the maiden that the worm would devour her: but the monk who sat by him pulled him down by the skirt, and laughed and said: "Sit still, lord! for the champion also has been provided." Then Ralph sat down again somewhat abashed and looked on; yet was his heart in his mouth the while.

The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Captain Nichols noticed Strickland for his size and his singular appearance among the crowd that waited for the doors to open; they waited listlessly, some walking to and fro, some leaning against the wall, and others seated on the curb with their feet in the gutter; and when they filed into the office he heard the monk who read his papers address him in English.

The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with MONK (3)

I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single mindedness of a monk. When the world in its entirety, and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: love me still more. When rage fills you and has no name: love me. When each step from your door to our job tires you--love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me. Love me when you're bored--when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last, or more pathetic, lov…

Ana Castillo I Ask the Impossible

Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

Cassandra Clare City of Bones

I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 174 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).