Usually means: Lifestyle dedicated to religious devotion.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word monkery:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. monkery: Merriam-Webster
  2. monkery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monkery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monkery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monkery: Wordnik
  6. monkery: Wiktionary
  7. monkery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. monkery: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Monkery, monkery: Dictionary.com
  10. Monkery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. monkery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Monkery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. monkery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. monkery: FreeDictionary.org
  15. monkery: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. monkery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. monkery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. monkery: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See monkeries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (monkery)

noun:  (dated, often derogatory) The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life.
noun:  (dated, derogatory) Monasticism.
noun:  (dated, often derogatory or humorous) A monastery.
noun:  (dated, collectively) Monks, considered as a group. (Compare clergy, laity.)

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