Meaning

5 senses
  1. The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.

    a monastery ruled by an abbot

  2. 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.

    Near-synonym: convent

    From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.

    Abtei

    абба́тствоabbátstvo, монасты́рьmonastýrʹ

  3. The church of a monastery.

    Klosterkirche

    a church associated with a monastery or convent

  4. (British, English)A residence that was previously an abbatial building.

  5. (dialectal)The abele or white poplar (Populus alba).

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Why are they selling the abbey?

    ruЗачем они продают аббатство?

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  2. There used to be an abbey here.

    deHier stand einst eine Abtei.

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  3. We walked through the ruins of the abbey.

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  4. I want to see the medieval tiles in the nearby abbey.

    deIch möchte mir die mittelalterlichen Fliesen in der Abtei in der Nähe ansehen.

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  5. An abbey once stood here.

    ruКогда-то здесь стоял монастырь.

    deHier stand einst eine Abtei.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
monastery headed by an abbot:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
monastery headed by an abbot:
church of a monastery:

Origin

From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare arc

From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.

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