Abbey - English meaning

ˈæb.i

Abbey – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.
Usage examples:
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
Synonims:
MonasteryConventPrioryCloisterFriaryNunneryReligious houseReligious communityCharterhouseCellCenobiumCenoby

noun
A building for monks (= religious men) or nuns (= religious women) to live in

noun
A building where monks or nuns live or used to live. some abbeys are now used as churches
Usage examples:
Westminster abbey

Abbey translation into English

Abbey: translate from English into Chinese

修道院, 僧院, 大寺院

Abbey: translate from English into Dutch

Abdij, Abdijkerk

Abbey: translate from English into French

Une abbaye, Abbaye

Abbey: translate from English into German

Abtei, Klosterkirche

Abbey: translate from English into Hindi

बौद्ध मठ, ऐबी, ईसाई मठ

Abbey: translate from English into Italian

Abbazia, Badia

Abbey: translate from English into Korean

대사원, 대수도원, 대수도사들, 대수도사 수녀들

Abbey: translate from English into Russian

Аббатство, Монастырь

Abbey: translate from English into Spanish

Abadía, Monasterio, Convento

Word origin

Middle English: from Old French abbeie, from medieval Latin abbatia ‘abbacy’, from abbas, abbat- (see abbot).

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Abbey synonims

cell

sel

noun
A small room in which a prisoner is locked up or in which a monk or nun sleeps.
Usage examples:
The authorities locked all remaining inmates in their cells

noun
The smallest basic unit of a plant or animal

noun
Another word for cell phone
Usage examples:
Call me on my cell.

Cell - all meanings in English

cloister

ˈklɔɪ.stər

noun
A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
Usage examples:
The shadowed cloisters of the convent

verb
Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Usage examples:
The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

noun
A covered stone passage around the four sides of a courtyard (= a square or rectangular space) especially in a religious building such as a church or monastery

Cloister - all meanings in English

convent

ˈkɒn.vənt

noun
A christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows.
Usage examples:
Maria entered the convent at the age of eighteen

noun
A building or group of buildings in which nuns (= religious women) live or worship

noun
A building in which nuns (= members of a female religious order) live

Convent - all meanings in English

friary

ˈfraɪə.ri

noun
A building or community occupied by or consisting of friars.
Usage examples:
The friary is a building of stone turned dark by the city's grime.

noun
A building in which friars live

Friary - all meanings in English

monastery

noun
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
Usage examples:
In the middle of the 19th century abbot of the monastery was a monk named genadii.

noun
A building or group of buildings in which monks (= religious men) live and worship

Monastery - all meanings in English

nunnery

ˈnʌn.ər.i

noun
A building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent.
Usage examples:
You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.

noun
A convent

Nunnery - all meanings in English

priory

noun
A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.
Usage examples:
Others included walks from iona to holy island, canterbury to york, and around the monasteries, abb…

noun
A building where monks or nuns live, work, and pray

Priory - all meanings in English

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