cenobite

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsɛn.əˌbaɪt/
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/ˈsɛn.əˌbaɪt/ · /ˈsiː.nəˌbaɪt/

Definition of cenobite

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
    “Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.”
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noun

  1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
    “Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.”
  2. A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
    “To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place.”
  3. A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

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