hospice; Tibetan Buddhism, lamasery, Buddhism. vihara, Hinduism, ashram.
2. convent, nunnery. See - convent.
3. novitiate, seminary. See - seminary (def. 1). monastic, adj. 1. cenobitic, conventual, communal, monachal, canonical, Eccles. regular, capitular, cloistral, abbatial, monastical, Rare, monkly, (usu. derogatory) monkish; clerical, priestly, ecclesiastical.
2. ascetic, celibate, disciplined, self-disciplined, friarlike; austere, severe, stern, harsh, rigid; unadorned, stark, plain.
3. holy, saintly, pious, dedicated, reverent, devout; prayerful, meditative, contemplative, spiritual.
4. secluded, isolated, cloistered, sheltered, sequestered; solitary, recluse, reclusive, eremitic, eremitical, eremitish, anchoritic.
-n. 5. See - monk and
nun.
monasticism, n. 1. monkhood, monachism, ceno-bitism, monkism, friarhood, brotherhood, monkdom, (usu. contemptuous) monkery; the cloister, the contemplative life, life of prayer, the better part; sisterhood, nunhood, nunship.
2. asceticism, self-denial, self-discipline, celibacy; mysticism, contemplation, spirituality, self-negation, via negativa.
3. anchoritism, eremiticism, solitude, reclusion, reclusiveness, seclusion, self-exile, remoteness, separation.
monetary, adj. financial, pecuniary, money, pocket-book, Inf. bread and butter; capital, sterling; fiscal; numismatic, nummary, nummular,
money, n. 1. medium of exchange, circulating medium, standard of value; note, government certificate, bond, government bond, savings bond; currency, cash, cold or hard cash, legal tender, greenbacks; coin, specie, change, pocket or small change, coppers, pennies, nickles and dimes, SI. chickenfeed, SI. peanuts, SI. small potatoes; paper money, bills, banknotes, Inf. folding money; almighty dollar, lucre, Disparaging. filthy lucre, Disparaging, pelf; All SI. dough, bread, moolah, mazuma, jack, long green, shekels, spondulicks, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, scratch, dibs, do-re-mi, loot, gravy, simoleons, wampum, U.S. bucks, U.S. kale.
2. mint, pile, heap, wad, Inf. boodle, SI. bundle, SI. big bucks.
3. wealth, affluence, opulence, prosperity; riches, treasure; property, means, wherewithal, pocket; capital, funds, assets, finances; nest egg, SI. cushion, SI. tidy bundle.
4. profit, gain, Inf. percentage, take, SI. rake-off, Brit. Dial. get.
5. in the money Slang, rich, well-off. See - moneyed.
6. make money gain, profit, make or realize or draw or reap a profit; succeed, score a success, hit it, hit the mark, turn up trumps, strike it rich, coin money, Inf. break the bank, Inf. make a killing, Inf. clean up, SI. hit the jackpot.
moneybag, n. 1. purse, pocketbook, wallet, Fr. porte-monnaie; handbag, bag, pouch, sack, pocket, Midland U.S. and Scot. poke.
2. moneybags rich man, wealthy man, moneyed man, man of means, man of wealth, man of substance, nabob, nawab, Brit. Inf. warm man, SI. fat cat; millionaire, multimillionaire, billionaire; plutocrat, capitalist.
moneyed, adj. wealthy, rich, affluent, prosperous, flush, well-off, well-to-do, worth a great deal, heeled, Inf. well-heeled, Inf. made of money, Inf. rolling in money or dough, Inf. loaded, SI. stinking, SI. in the money or dough or chips, SI. filthy rich, SI. disgustingly rich; comfortable, easy, fat, Inf. on Easy Street, Inf.
