cenobite

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 sĕnʹə-bīt'

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
    — Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.
  2. A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
    — To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place.
  3. A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.

词形变化

cenobites plural coenobite alternative cœnobite alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cenobitic cenobitical cenobitism
相关词
monk nun religious

词源

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
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