MONASTIC HABIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monastic habit mean? 

• MONASTIC HABIT (noun)
  The noun MONASTIC HABIT has 1 sense:

1. a long loose habit worn by monks in a monastery

  Familiarity information: MONASTIC HABIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONASTIC HABIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long loose habit worn by monks in a monastery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("monastic habit" is a kind of...):

habit (a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order)

Meronyms (parts of "monastic habit"):

scapular; scapulary (garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit)

 Context examples 

Let the matter be brought to an issue then according to our old-time monastic habit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the right Sir Oliver, Aylward, Hordle John, and the bowmen of the Company fought furiously against the monkish Knights of Santiago, who were led up the hill by their prior—a great, deep-chested man, who wore a brown monastic habit over his suit of mail.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)