friarynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfraɪə.ri/us/ˈfraɪɚ.i/a building in which friars live
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Religious people: monks & nuns
- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- anchorite
- ascetic
- benedictine
- flagellant
- Franciscan
- friar
- habit
- hermit
- lay brother/sister
- monk
- mother
- novice
- nun
- nunnery
- sister
- Trappist monk
- veil
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- Soon after Lisa's visit he went to live in a separate cell as a hermit, and for three weeks did not officiate again in the church of the friary.
- The gray walls of the old friary were just ahead, scarcely a stone's throw from the river.