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.