Monastery - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈmɑːnəsterɪ|  American pronunciation of the word monastery
Brit.  |ˈmɒnəst(ə)rɪ|  British pronunciation of the word monastery

noun

- the residence of a religious community

Extra examples

...Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden....

...went for a retreat at the monastery for a temporary respite from the moil of the modern world...

...refections at the monastery are as spartan as the surroundings...

...the crypt under the abbey church contains the sarcophagus of the monastery's founding abbot...

...he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood...

...the monastery perched high on a mountaintop had an aura of unreality and mystery about it...

The building began life as a monastery.

This drawing of the monastery was done from an unusual angle.

She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery

Word forms

noun
singular: monastery
plural: monasteries
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