Nunnery - English meaning

noun

The building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.

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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

noun

A building where monks or nuns live or used to live. some abbeys are now used as churches

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Westminster abbey

noun

A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.

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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

noun

A christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows.

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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

noun

A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.

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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