how to pronounce monk

/ˈmʌŋk/

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monk is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of monk in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… there she met a buddhist monk my dad was …”

meaning of monk

A monk is a member of a religious order who has taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

monk frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word monk occurs in english on average 6.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics monk can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that monk can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;