abbey
IPA: ˈæbi
noun
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- The church of a monastery.
- (British) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
- A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.
- A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
- A British surname.
- (London) Westminster Abbey.
- (Scotland) The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
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Examples of "abbey" in Sentences
- The wealth of the abbey was immense.
- He is the current abbot of the abbey.
- The Abbey prospered until the reformation.
- The abbey was one of the household monasteries.
- Enclosure was piecemeal and prompted by the abbey.
- It was the Munich Abbey Church of the Augustinian hermits.
- In 910 the Hungarians ransacked and burnt the church and abbey.
- Of this church the abbey had the appropriation as early as 1324.
- The church is popularly known as the 'Westminster Abbey of the East'.
- Some of the monastic buildings survive, to the south of the abbey church.
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