The meaning of Monasteries

Monasteries – definition

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.
Synonims:
Religious house Religious community Friary Abbey Priory Cloister Convent Nunnery Vihara Lamasery Tekke Ashram Charterhouse Cell Cenobium Cenoby

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

Monasteries translation into English

Monasteries: translate from English into Chinese

修道院, 寺院, 寺庙, 庙

Monasteries: translate from English into Dutch

Kloosters, Klooster, Mannenklooster, Mannenklooster, Monnikenklooster, De monniken

Monasteries: translate from English into French

Monastères, Monastère

Monasteries: translate from English into German

Klöster, Kloster, Mönchskloster, Konvent, Männerkloster

Monasteries: translate from English into Hindi

मठों, मठ, विहार, मोनास्ट्री, आश्रम, ईसाई मठ

Monasteries: translate from English into Italian

Monasteri, Monastero

Monasteries: translate from English into Korean

수도원, 사워, 주로 남자의 수도원

Monasteries: translate from English into Russian

Монастыри, Монастырь

Monasteries: translate from English into Spanish

Monasterios, Monasterio, Cenobio

Word origin

late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek monastērion, from monazein ‘live alone’, from monos ‘alone’.

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Monasteries – similar words

monasterial

adjective
Belonging to or of the nature of a monastery.

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Monasteries synonims

abbey

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.

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

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ashram

noun
(especially in south asia) a hermitage, monastic community, or other place of religious retreat.
Usage examples:
A trip down the ashrams and bhajan ashrams of this holy city gives an insight into the plight of th…

noun
A place where a group of hindus live together away from the rest of society, or a place where hindus can go in order to pray

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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.

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cenobium

noun
A monastery.
Usage examples:
Many pilgrims flocked to the cenobium in search of the monk

All meanings and translations of Cenobium

charterhouse

noun
A carthusian monastery.
Usage examples:
In 1702 he was vicar at the charterhouse of bruges.

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cloister

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

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convent

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

All meanings and translations of Convent

friary

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

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lamasery

noun
A monastery of lamas.
Usage examples:
Before we could spend any more time on this somewhat incongruous image of himsa in the lamasery, a …

All meanings and translations of Lamasery

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

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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

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tekke

noun
A monastery of dervishes, especially in ottoman turkey.
Usage examples:
Generally, this aid included the restoration of tekkes so that tekkes accepted the sovereignty of t…

All meanings and translations of Tekke

vihara

noun
A buddhist temple or monastery.
Usage examples:
Scholarship came from the buddhist monks and their viharas, stupas and monasteries.

All meanings and translations of Vihara

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