monastery
monastery
Definition
mon·as·tery (män′ə ster′ē)
noun pl. -·ter′·ies
- a building or residence for monks or others who have withdrawn from the world for religious reasons
- those living there
Etymology: ME monasterie < LL(Ec) monasterium < LGr(Ec) monastērion < Gr monazein, to be alone < monos, alone: see mono-
mon′·as·te′·rial (-stir′ē əl) adjective
monastery
Synonyms
monastery
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- found: Founded a monastery, believed to be a place of miracles at Tywyn, Wales where he was later buried.
- dissolve: To protect the southern coast Henry immediately set about building a series of forts using the proceeds from the dissolved monasteries.
- endow: Lord Rhys, as he was generally known, assumed patronage of Strata Florida and endowed the monastery with generous gifts.
- restore: In 972 he was sent by the Emperor Otto I to restore the monastery of St Gall.
- ruin: It took 4 days to clear the mountain and occupy the small, now ruined, monastery at its summit.
- abandon: Most of the action happens in abandoned monasteries, churches and catacombs, but there are also some urban maps.
Preposition: in
- reign: Only one of the four ranges around the cloister survived the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.
Adjective modifier
- Benedictine: Indeed, it was among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England.
- cistercian: A visit to Caldey Island with its Cistercian monastery is a must.
- Franciscan: Your accommodation will be in either an old Franciscan monastery or one of the village hotels.
- Carmelite: While still young she entered the Carmelite monastery at Lisieux and practiced virtues of humility, evangelical simplicity and a firm confidence in God.
- Tibetan: A Tibetan monastery in the rural south of India.
- Dominican: The Dominican monastery was founded in 1482, burnt down during the Turkish assaults in 1571, later restored and fortified with a tower.
Preposition: on
- island: David I later founded a monastery on the island, with May becoming a place of pilgrimage.
Noun used with modifier
- Trappist: It comes from the Netherlands, and is brewed in a Trappist monastery.
- Buddhist: A progressive Buddhist monastery in Thailand; founded 1932.
- Benedictine: The king, ashamed, gave him some of his land, on which later a Benedictine monastery was built.
- hilltop: There is even a hilltop monastery at least 1,500 years old.
- century: Roche Abbey Roche Abbey a 12th century monastery, which fell victim to the wrath of Henry V111.
- island: Oswald took refuge on the island monastery of Iona off the western Scottish coast.
monastery Quotes
Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkholeofdepraved venality. And,ofcourse, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of AestheticTruth.
Browse dictionary entries near monastery
- monarda
- monarchy
- monarchism
- monarchical
- Monarchianism
- monarchal
- monarch
- monanthous
- monandry
- monandrous
