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.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
