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[ mon -uh -ster-ee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈmɒn əˌstɛr i / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun, plural mon·as·ter·ies. a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
the community of persons living in such a place.
Origin of monastery First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Late Latin monastērium, from Late Greek monastḗrion “monk house,” originally, “hermit's cell,” equivalent to monas-, variant stem of monázein “to be alone” + -tērion neuter adjective suffix denoting place; see mono-
SYNONYMS FOR monastery 1 cloister; abbey, priory, friary, lamasery.
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OTHER WORDS FROM monastery mon·as·te·ri·al [mon-uh -steer -ee-uh l], /ˌmɒn əˈstɪər i əl/, adjective Words nearby monastery monarthritis, monarticular, monas, Monash, monaster, monastery , monastic, monasticism, Monastral, monathetosis, monatomic
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Example sentences from the Web for monastery A Spaniard by birth, Victor Serna left home shy of his 14th birthday and entered the monastery to become a Marist brother.
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In 2008, his monastery was in desperate need of funds and Vreeland decided to lend a hand with his first photography exhibition.
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On Sunday Than Dar held the last of the funeral rites for her husband with a food donation ceremony at a monastery .
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To many at the time—clerics in particular—attacking a monastery or church would have seemed irrational.
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These days the monastery and motels house people who had to leave Sloviansk.
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I will now jot hastily down the points of contact between one of these monasteries described by Philo and a Buddhist monastery .
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San Martino, the site of a suppressed Benedictine monastery , is the next spot of interest.
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Run quickly and bring the priests of the monastery to me, that I may make to them such presents as God hath given to me.
The Catholic World, Vol. X, October 1869 | Various
The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery .
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They passed two years together at the monastery of Poss-Rhoss.
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British Dictionary definitions for monastery noun plural -teries the residence of a religious community, esp of monks, living in seclusion from secular society and bound by religious vows
Derived forms of monastery monasterial (ˌmɒnəˈstɪərɪəl ), adjective Word Origin for monastery C15: from Church Latin monastērium, from Late Greek monastērion, from Greek monázein to live alone, from monos alone
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