Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Buddhist monk, especially of China, Japan, or nearby countries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Buddhist monk, especially of China and Japan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Buddhist priest inJapan .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cyclopædia.] [Footnote 47: The word bonze (Japanese _bon-so_ or _bozu_, Chinese
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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If you want to support your child to reach for the gold yet celebrate the bonze -- or if your once-happy child that used to love skating or basketball no longer wants to participate -- here are nine imagination tools that can help.
Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.: Visualizing Victory: 9 Tools to Help Kids Achieve Success in Sports Ph.D. Charlotte Reznick 2011
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Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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If you want to support your child to reach for the gold yet celebrate the bonze -- or if your once-happy child that used to love skating or basketball no longer wants to participate -- here are nine imagination tools that can help.
Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.: Visualizing Victory: 9 Tools to Help Kids Achieve Success in Sports Ph.D. Charlotte Reznick 2011
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If you want to support your child to reach for the gold yet celebrate the bonze -- or if your once-happy child that used to love skating or basketball no longer wants to participate -- here are nine imagination tools that can help.
Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.: Visualizing Victory: 9 Tools to Help Kids Achieve Success in Sports Ph.D. Charlotte Reznick 2011
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If you want to support your child to reach for the gold yet celebrate the bonze -- or if your once-happy child that used to love skating or basketball no longer wants to participate -- here are nine imagination tools that can help.
Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.: Visualizing Victory: 9 Tools to Help Kids Achieve Success in Sports Ph.D. Charlotte Reznick 2011
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*Quickly scoop up teh bwaynze, washify them in sparlking San Pellegrino water, pack back into head bonze.
Wow. She’s right! I - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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A bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo.
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“My son,” the bonze answers, “give me twenty rupees and God will give you grace to believe all that you now do not believe.”
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