The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MONK
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More clues leading to the result MONK
- Religious fellow contributing to sermon knowledgeably
- Day, then week, missing little prayer?
- Capuchin, say, or only two thirds of capuchin?
- 2 great in prayer
- Member of community using terminals of metro network
- Mark bandages leg for brother
- Setter in order
- Celibate for one day last week
- Brother’s nose, ten times bigger at the front
- Religious troublemaker you turned away
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The straight part
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What does MONK mean?
MONK noun- A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
- An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
- A judge.
- A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
- A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
- A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
- The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- The monkfish.
- A fuse for firing mines.
- To be a monk.
- To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
- To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
- To be intoxicated or confused.
- To be attached in a way that sticks out.
- A monkey.