monastic order

1. 1.

   a group of person living under a religious rule

   “the order of Saint Benedict”

   Synonymsorder

   Broadersect

   NarrowerAugustinian orderBenedictine orderCarmelite orderCarthusian orderDominican orderFranciscan orderSociety of Jesus

Questions about monastic order

What does monastic order mean?

monastic order means "a group of person living under a religious rule".

What is another word for monastic order?

Close synonyms include order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monastic order a common word?

monastic order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.