
1) Cloister 2) Convent 3) French word used in English 4) Home for the holy ones 5) Home to monks or nuns 6) It ranks below an abbey 7) Monastery 8) Monastic building 9) Religious abode 10) Religious house 11) Religious residence 12) Small monastery 13) Ward of Trafford 
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 A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters (as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites, for instance), or monasteries of monks or nuns (as the Benedictines). Houses of canons regular and canonesses regular also...
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[ward]  Priory is an electoral ward of Trafford, Greater Manchester, covering the northern and central part of Sale, including the Town Centre. Its electoral history since 1973 is as follows: ...
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• (n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
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See monastery. Priory picture
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Origin: Cf. LL. Prioria. See Prior. ... A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell. ... Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other...
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 Pri'o·ry  noun
Pri'o·ry  noun ; 
 plural  Priories . [ Confer Late Latin 
 prioria . See 
 Prior , 
 noun ] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also 
 cell , and 
 obedience ...
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a monastery or nunnery dependent on an ABBEY or Cathedral.
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A priory is a monastery governed by a prior. Alien priories were small conventual establishments, or cells, belonging to foreign monasteries.
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[
n] - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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priory A religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
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 noun
 noun religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
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