Look up: Monastery

1. monastery
   The building where monks live.
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2. monastery
   The building where monks live.
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3. monastery
   [n] - the residence of a religious community
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4. monastery
   An abbey, priory, or convent for monks, friars, or nuns. An abbey (as the name implies) is under the rule of an abbot or abbess; similarly a priory is ruled by a prior or prioress. In cathedral...
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5. monastery
   A place where monks live a holy life of prayer to God.
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6. Monastery
   A religious community of men, as monks, or women, as nuns. (Very occasionally both men and women). These people devote their lives to religion and the service of others. Abbeys were controlled by an abbot, priories by a prior and establishments of nuns called a convent. In Christianity there were or...
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7. Monastery
   a self contained, organised religious community, and the communal buildings around which the life of the inhabitants revolves. see church design
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8. Monastery
   A monastery is the collective dwelling place of persons living under religious vows and a set of rules. Males and females (monks and nuns) would normally inhabit separate communities. The collective dwelling place of nuns is sometimes referred to as a nunnery.A place where monks lead a more separate, solitary life is called a hermitage.
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9. Monastery
   Mon'as·te·ry noun ; plural Monasteries . [ Latin monasterium , Greek ..., from ... a solitary, a monk, from ... to be alone, live in solitude, from mo`nos alone. Confer Minister .] A house of religious retirement...
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10. monastery
    Origin: L. Monasterium, Gr, fr. A solitary, a monk, fr. To be alone, live in solitude, fr. Alone. Cf. Minister. ... A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; more rarely applied to such a house for females. ... Synonym: Convent, abbey, pri...
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11. monastery
    noun the residence of a religious community
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12. Monastery
    • (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
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13. monastery
    local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks. See abbey; monasticism.[22 related articles]
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14. Monastery
    A monastery is a house into which persons retire from the world to lead a life devoted to religion. The practice of monachism or monastic seclusion, though it has been carried to its greatest development within the Christian Church, had its origin in periods long before the Christian era, and has lo...
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15. monastery
    Click images to enlargeAn abbey, priory, or convent for monks, friars, or nuns. An abbey (as the name implies) is under the rule of an abbot or abbess; similarly a priory is ruled by a prior or prioress. In cathedral monasteries the bishop was the abbot, and the superior of the establishment was a cathedral prior
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16. Monastery
    Certain cheeses are linked historically in that they were originally developed by monks. They are known as monastery cheeses although they range in flavour and aroma considerably.
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17. Monastery
    in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, Russia, ca. 1910. `Monastery` (plural: `monasteries`) denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e.g. an oratory) as well as the domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in c...
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