what is a Monks
A monk (from Greek: Î¼Î¿Î½Î±ÏÏÏ, monachos, single, solitary and Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of other monks.owever, being generic, it is not interchangeable with terms that denote particular kinds of monk, such as friar, cenobite, hermit, anchorite, hesychast, or solitary.