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A '''[[monk]]''' is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.

'''Monk''' may also refer to:

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==People==
* [[Monk (nickname)]]
* [[Monk (surname)]]
* [[Monk Gibbon]] (1896–1987), Irish poet and author
* [[Monk Higgins]] (1936–1986), American musician and saxophonist
* [[Thelonious Monk]] (1917-1982), American jazz pianist and composer

==Places==
* [[Monk (Montreal Metro)]], a metro station in Montreal, Québec, Canada
* [[Monk Islands]], South Orkney Islands, off Antarctica
* [[Monk's House]], an 18th-century English cottage

==Arts and entertainment==
===Characters===
* [[Monk (character class)]], a character class in a number of role-playing tabletop and video games
** [[Monk (Dungeons & Dragons)|Monk (''Dungeons & Dragons'')]], a playable character in most versions of ''Dungeons & Dragons''
* [[Monk (comics)]], a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
* [[The Monk (Doctor Who)|The Monk (''Doctor Who'')]], a recurring villain in the ''Doctor Who'' television series and related media
* [[Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]] ("Monk"), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage's
* the title character of ''[[Monk Little Dog]]'', an animated series for children on CITV
* [[Adrian Monk]], the protagonist of the television series ''Monk''
* [[William Monk]], a Victorian-era detective

===Films===
* [[The Monk (1969 film)|''The Monk'' (1969 film)]], a made-for-television movie
* [[The Monk (1972 film)|''The Monk'' (1972 film)]], a French-German-Italian-Belgian film
* [[The Monk (1975 film)|''The Monk'' (1975 film)]], a Hong Kong martial arts film
* [[The Monk (1990 film)|''The Monk'' (1990 film)]], a British film
* [[The Monk (2011 film)|''The Monk'' (2011 film)]], a French film
* [[The Monk (2015 film)|''The Monk'' (2015 film)]], a Chinese film

===Music===
* [[Monk (experimental music band)]], led by former Over the Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski
* [[Monk (1954 album)|''Monk'' (1954 album)]], by Thelonious Monk
* [[Monk (1964 album)|''Monk'' (1964 album)]], by Thelonious Monk

===Television===
* [[Monk (TV series)|''Monk'' (TV series)]], a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
** [[Monk (soundtrack)|''Monk'' (soundtrack)]], a 2004 soundtrack of the show

===In print===
* ''[[Monk Magazine]]'', a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane
* ''[[The Monk]]'', a 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis

==Flora and fauna==
* ''[[Amauris tartarea]]'', a butterfly also known as the monk or dusky friar
* [[Monk parakeet]] (''Myiopsitta monachus''), a bird of South America
* [[Monk seal]], any of several species of the tribe Monachini
* ''[[Siraitia grosvenorii]]'', a vine which bears a fruit known as monk fruit

==Other uses==
* [[Monk shoe]], a men's shoe with a buckled strap

==See also==
* [[Monck (disambiguation)]]
* [[Monks (disambiguation)]]
* SS Major General [[Wilhelm Mohnke]] (1911–2001), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard "Berlin"

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