Nuns and monks live and work in a monastery.
Sisters and friars live in a convent and work outside the convent.
The opposite gender of a monk is a nun.
There is no feminine form of Friar. Friar comes from the French word frere, which means "brother". The church being sexist never came up with a feminine version. Some would suggest a nun is the female form of friar, but this is not true. A nun is the female form of a monk, not a friar.
Martin Luther was in fact a friar, not a monk.He was a friar beginning in 1505, when he made a promise to St. Anne - if he saved him from the thunderstorm, he would become a friar.
A Monk is the masculine, and the Nun is the feminine of Monk.
Depending on the type and order of a nun, the opposite could be monk or priest.
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In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. Noun and verb forms are neutral. Gender is shown by different forms or different words, for example:A friar is a male member of a religious order. A monk is a male member of a religious order that lives secluded in a monetary.A nun is a female member of a religious order. A nun may live is the secular world or live secluded in a convent, there is no specific noun to distinguish these two types of nun.
The masculine gender of a monk is still monk. Monks can be male or female, and the term itself is used regardless of gender.
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Yes. There is Friar Lawrence and Friar John in Romeo and Juliet, and Friar Peter, Friar Thomas and Friar Francis in Measure for Measure, in which the Duke disguises himself as a monk. There is a Friar Patrick mentioned in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, who fulfils the same function as Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, although we do not see him. You may object that technically a friar is not the same thing as a monk, but it is not clear whether Shakespeare was clear on the difference. In any case, King John is clearly stated to have been poisoned "by a monk" and not by a friar. The word "monk" occurs most frequently in his very late play Henry VIII.
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