a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
source: WordNet 3.0
United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
