Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A religions house next in dignity below an abbey, and often, but not necessarily, dependent upon an abbey. Its superior is called a prior or prioress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also
cell , andobedience . Seecell , 2. - noun a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
monastery orconvent governed by aprior orprioress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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Examples
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Next to Santo Domingo, occupying part of the magnificent building that was originally the priory, is the state's Regional Museum.
Oaxaca, Mexico: a day in one of the New World's finest cities 2005
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Next to Santo Domingo, occupying part of the magnificent building that was originally the priory, is the state's Regional Museum.
Oaxaca, Mexico: a day in one of the New World's finest cities 2005
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I called the priory and sure enough she was there, sick as a dog and in bed with the flu, but patiently awaiting word from me, and immediately wired some money for a ticket on my old dog.
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CONLIN: Actually, it's called the priory and I know it's probably ...
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The priory was a rectangular enclosure with the church in the middle.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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Outside the low wall that enclosed the priory was a scatter of ordinary hovels made of timber and mud with thatched roofs, occupied by the peasants who tilled the fields round about and the servants who worked for the monks.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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The priory was a nicer place to live now that he had gone.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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The ruler of a priory should be a monk, not a royal appointee who did not even know the names of the Divine Services!
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The ruler of a priory should be a monk, not a royal appointee who did not even know the names of the Divine Services!
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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There were no guests either to bring tidings, for the priory was a marked place and it was well not to show or receive kindliness in its regard.
The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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