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# monastery

noun (a monastery, monasteries)

«monastery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A building or group of buildings where monks live, pray and work together under religious rules. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#m1)
2. (history) Such a place as a centre of learning, farming and copying books in the Middle Ages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, monasteries such as Lindisfarne and Iona were places where monks copied books by hand and were attacked by Vikings; Henry VIII closed many English monasteries. In religious education, monasteries exist in Christianity and in Buddhism. Phrases: «live in a monastery», «a ruined monastery», «monastery garden», «dissolution of the monasteries».

### Examples

- The monks in the monastery get up early to pray. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x1)
- We visited the ruins of an old monastery on the island. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x2)
- Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x3)
- In the Middle Ages monks in the monastery copied books by hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x4)
- There is a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Tibet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x5)
- The monastery garden grew herbs for medicine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x6)
- Henry VIII closed the monasteries and took their land. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x7)
- Planudes, however, was no mere recluse, shut up in his monastery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/#x8)

### Note

Plural «monasteries» (y → ies). A place for monks; a place for nuns is usually a «convent» or «nunnery». «Abbey» and «priory» are kinds of monastery. Adjective: «monastic». Spelling: monast-ery (ends in -ery, not -ary).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «monastery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monastery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«monastery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/monastery.html) on Mova free.