abbey
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and…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.
Recorded US: Neskaya, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
» Why are they selling the abbey?
Зачем они продают аббатство? — marafon
Почему они продают аббатство? — marafon
tjwhale · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRTranslations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Examples
11 sentencesMeaning
5 sensesA 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
The church of a monastery.
Klosterkirche
a church associated with a monastery or convent
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
More meanings 2
(British, English)A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
(dialectal)The abele or white poplar (Populus alba).
Origin
From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare arcFrom 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.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: abbeysSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
13 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.