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.