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Monastery

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Monastery"

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Word	Definition
friarynoun	A house or convent where friars (members of certain religious communities) live.
cloisternoun	A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
nunnerynoun	(chiefly Christianity) The residence of a female religious community, a monastery or abbey for nuns.
monasticnoun	A person with monastic ways; a monk.
conventnoun	A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
abbeynoun	A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
churchnoun	(countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
templenoun	A house of worship, especially:
mosquenoun	(Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
buddhistnoun	A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.
deerenoun	A surname.
dernoun	A nickname for Derek, Derrick, etc.
dirnoun	Abbreviation of direction. [A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).]
diernoun	One who dies.
deirnoun	—
hermitagenoun	A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
priorynoun	A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
gompanoun	(Buddhism) A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan.
sketenoun	A secluded religious community in Eastern Orthodox Christianity which is a dependency of, and generally less physically substantial than, a monastery, generally consisting of living quarters and a church.
cellnoun	(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.