The meaning of Priory

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

noun

A monastery.

Usage examples:

Many pilgrims flocked to the cenobium in search of the monk

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 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 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

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

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