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Chantry

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Chantry"

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Word	Definition
choirmatenoun	A member of the same choir.
patronagenoun	The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
patronnoun	A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
chaplainenoun	Obsolete spelling of chaplain. [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
deaconessnoun	(Christianity) A non-clerical role for women in some churches.
oblatenoun	(Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
motherhousenoun	The convent which is the seat (and often the above original foundation) of the superior of an order or congregation, and/or on which lower ranking houses (such as priories under an abbot) depend.
anchorholdnoun	The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
conventual	Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
clinicnoun	A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
canonessnoun	A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
mendicant ordernoun	Any religious order whose members depend on begging or charity.
titular	Existing in name only; nominal.
cenobitenoun	A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
vestalnoun	A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
prayeenoun	(law) One who is prayed in aid.
paupernoun	One who is extremely poor.
churchmatenoun	Someone with whom one attends a church, or one who regularly goes to the same church.
convent schoolnoun	A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
sanghanoun	The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).