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Word of the Day – Monastery

By April 25, 2020Word of the Day

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.”

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