monastery
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- noun
- /ˈmɒnəˌstɛri/
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monasterio
- The ancient monastery served as a serene retreat for those seeking spiritual guidance and community.
- abbot of the monastery
- monastery chapel
- build a monastery
Beck is a, is a monastery in France.
- Beck is a, is a monastery in France.
- They could raid a monastery, check out another monastery the same afternoon.
- Well, I've never met a monk in a monastery who's been praying to make money.
- It destroyed so many of their monasteries, churches of all kinds.
- About Serbian, Serbian guy who's like the docent at the the monastery of Gretchenizza.
- I mean, this is all happening at a monastery.
- This is a man who didn't talk for a year straight in a monastery.
- So we get, you know, why was I going to a monastery on a rainy night and a fall?
- Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered.
- Also in Vietnam, inside, physically inside my camp was a Buddhist monastery.
- And I went into a Buddhist monastery and spent some time as a monk.
- And a lot of these early places are cathedrals or monasteries.
- But he was open to trying MDMA in half dose as an aid to meditation in the monastery.
Examples
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All I wanted in the world... was to be a Catholic priest, live in a monastery, pray, serve God.
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This is the last place I thought I'd find you, a monastery.
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Everyone who lives here is at the monastery right now and they all just smile at us.
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We'll head back to the monastery at once.
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I was found outside a monastery.
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Dad drives us to the monastery, but only I get out of the car.
Fiction book (1993) -
I can see that the big wooden door leading into the monastery is open a crack.
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The front part of the monastery is a courtyard with a lawn, bushes, and trees.
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Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered.
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The Tiger's Nest Monastery, the most famous and precariously perched monastery in the entire country.
Synonyms
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A large building where monks or nuns live and worship
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A building where nuns live and pray together
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A place where people live to study religion and practice meditation, often in India
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A building where religious women live and work
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A building where monks or nuns live and pray
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9.1
A place where monks or nuns live away from the rest of the world
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A building where religious men called friars live and work
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A monastery in Tibetan Buddhism where monks called lamas live and pray
A place where people live apart to focus on religion, like a monastery or convent
A place where people live together to practice meditation and religious study
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Etymology
Monastery comes from the Greek root monos, meaning 'alone'. It originally named a place for people who lived apart to pray, and you can see the same idea in the word monk, so a monastery today is a building where monks live, work, and worship.