MONASTIC ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monastic order mean? 

• MONASTIC ORDER (noun)
  The noun MONASTIC ORDER has 1 sense:

1. a group of person living under a religious rule

  Familiarity information: MONASTIC ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONASTIC ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of person living under a religious rule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

monastic order; order

Context example:

the order of Saint Benedict

Hypernyms ("monastic order" is a kind of...):

religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monastic order"):

Augustinian order (any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine)

Benedictine order; order of Saint Benedict (a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities)

Carmelite order; Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century)

Carthusian order (an austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084)

Dominican order (a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century)

Franciscan order (a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century)

Jesuit order; Society of Jesus (a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship)

 Context examples 

Charges brought upon the second Thursday after the Feast of the Assumption, in the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and sixty-six, against brother John, formerly known as Hordle John, or John of Hordle, but now a novice in the holy monastic order of the Cistercians.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)