"monastic" in the noun sense
1. monk, monastic
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
"monastic" in the adjective sense
1. cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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