| A | B |
|---|
| monk | solitary |
| monachos | Greek origin of the word monk |
| monastery | place where monks live |
| hermit | someone who lives in the desert away from everyone |
| eremos | root word for "hermit"; it means "desert" |
| Anchorite | someone who has left the world or "taken to the hills" |
| Cenobite | someone who lives in an organized community |
| Abba | father, abbot, or superior |
| Apa | means the same thing as Abba |
| Amma | the abbess, a woman who heads a group of monastic women |
| monasticism | A state of life in which one leaves the world and deveotes him/herself fully to God |
| Father of Monasticism | Antony the Hermit |
| Dendrite monk | a monk who lived in isolation high above the ground |
