1) Abbatial 2) Abbey 3) Charterhouse 4) Friary 5) Lamasery 6) Priory
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1) Cloister 2) Community of monks 3) French word used in English 4) Holy island sight 5) Quiet home, usually 6) Religious residence 7) The building where monks live 8) Where an order may be placed
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An autonomous community house of a religious order, which may or may not be a monastic order. The term is used more specifically to refer to a community house of men or women religious in which they lead a contemplative life separate from the world.
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Monastery (plural: monasteries) denotes the building, or complex of buildings, comprising the domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church or temple, and may also serve as an or...
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• (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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local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks. See abbey; monasticism.[22 related articles]
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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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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 orders on how to organise physically and spiritually...
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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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The building where monks live.
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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, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, ...
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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 long flourished in countries where Christianity has ...
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an autonomous community house of a religious order, which may or may not be a monastic order. The term is used more specifically to refer to a community house of men or women religious in which they lead a contemplative life separate from the world.
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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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n] - the residence of a religious community
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A monastery is the residence of monks, or monastics; the term is commonly used in both the Christian and Buddhist traditions. Monasticism refers to the life of work, study, and discipline led by monks and nuns.
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A place where monks live a holy life of prayer to God.
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noun the residence of a religious community
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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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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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a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, esp. monks, living in seclusion under religious vows. · the community of persons living in such a place.
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