abbey

Definitions


[ˈabi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns
(e.g: in 1059 he found his way to the abbey of Bec in Normandy)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French abbeie, from medieval Latin abbatia ‘abbacy’, from abbas, abbat- (see abbot)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries