- order, monastic order - a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"
--1 is a kind of sect, religious sect, religious order
--1 has particulars:Augustinian order; Benedictine order, order of Saint Benedict; Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Carthusian order; Dominican order; Franciscan order; Jesuit order, Society of Jesus