monastic order
Monks' organized group
A monastic order is a religious community whose members live together under a common rule, typically taking vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Benedictines, Franciscans, and Trappists are monastic orders.
Members devote themselves to prayer, contemplation, and often manual labor or charitable work: She entered a monastic order at nineteen.
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- cloistered lifeSecluded religious existence
- scriptoriumMonastery manuscript workshop
- prayerAddress to deity
- silenceTotal lack of sound
abbot · abbey · asceticism · simple living · novice · Buddhism · Middle Ages · Benedictine · religious life · holy orders · Christianity · Hinduism · refectory · hermitage · habit · Jainism · tonsure · vow of poverty
- orderscommand, decree, dictate, mandate, proclamation
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- religious communitiesabbey, ashram, ashrams, convent, friary
- religious groupscongregation, congregations, sect, parishes, fellowship
- religious institutionschurch, cathedral, temple, synagogue, convent
lifestyle and social organization
monastic ordersecular life
Non-spiritual way of living
secular society · civilian life · civil society · worldliness · marketplace