Monastery (noun)
mon-as-tu-ree
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
Late Middle English via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek monastērion, from monazein ‘live alone’, from monos ‘alone’.
Example sentences
“All that is on the island is an old monastery.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
