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n. A community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion.

n. The dwelling place of such a community.

n. Place of residence for members of a religious community (especially monks).

n. A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

n. A house or other place of residence occupied in common by persons seeking religious seclusion from the world: commonly applied to such a house exclusively used by monks.

n. the residence of a religious community

"Originally the term monastery designated, both in the East and in the West, the dwelling either of a solitary or of a community; while caenobium, congregatio, fraternitas, asceterion, etc. were applied solely to the houses of communities."

religious residence    cloister   

monasteries' dissolution acts    mitered monastery    friary    convent    cloister    abbey   

monastic    monasticism   

charterhouse    friary    lamasery    abbey   

convent    priory    cloister    abbey    charterhouse    borzery    lamasery    vihara    monkery    cell   

convent    abbey    cathedral    temple    fortress    cloister    church    mansion    mosque    university