monastery
pronunciation
How to pronounce monastery in British English:
UK [ˈmɒnəstri]
How to pronounce monastery in American English:
US [ˈmɑnəsteri]
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- Noun:
- the residence of a religious community
Word Origin
- monastery
- monastery: see monk
- monastery (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium, from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono-). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female.
Example
- 1. Their main target is the mor gabriel syrian orthodox monastery .
- 2. The monastery was founded in the 6th century by a syrian monk david .
- 3. Entrance to the monastery at natlismcemeli .
- 4. The monastery of saint david gareji .
- 5. Mason thinks the monastery may have once been a roman watchtower destroyed in an earthquake .