Monastery Synonyms

mŏnə-stĕrē
A place of religious seclusion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abbey
  2. cloister
  3. priory
  4. convent
  5. nunnery
  6. friary
  7. hospice
  8. lamasery
  9. minister
  10. religious community
  11. prior
  12. retreat
  13. sanctuary

Words Related to Monastery

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. monastry
  2. benedictine
  3. shrine
  4. monk
  5. monastic
  6. montecassino
  7. mailros
  8. cistercian
  9. augustinians
  10. cluniac
  11. 12th-century

Monastery Sentence Examples

  • The church of the Holy Trinity occupies the site of a Saxon monastery, which existed before 691, when the bishop of Worcester received it in exchange from Ethelred, king of Mercia.

  • The monastery also possesses the firman of Mahommed II.

  • In 737 he voluntarily retired to a monastery and left the kingdom to his cousin Eadberht.

  • In a monastery at Naples, near the cathedral of St Januarius, is still shown a cell in which he is said to have lived.

  • In exempt convents the head of the monastery or priory exercised jurisdiction subject to an appeal to the pope.

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