priory
51Priory — Any religious house administered by a prior or prioress. If the prior was subject to a resident abbot, the house was called an abbey or monastery. The title prioress was held in certain religious houses for women. See also Monastery. a monastery; …
52priory — n monastery, religious house, abbey, cloister, cenoby, friary; convent, nunnery; seminary …
53priory — pri·o·ry …
54priory — Приорат …
55priory — pri•o•ry [[t]ˈpraɪ ə ri[/t]] n. pl. ries rel a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME < ML …
56priory — /ˈpraɪəri/ (say pruyuhree) noun (plural priories) a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey. {Middle English priorie, from Medieval Latin priōria} …
57priory — A religious house presided over by a prior and next in dignity after an abbey …
58priory — n. (pl. ies) a monastery governed by a prior or a nunnery governed by a prioress. Etymology: ME f. AF priorie, med.L prioria (as PRIOR) …
59St. Mary's Priory (Lothian) — Priory of St. Mary of North Berwick Ruins of the priory before North Berwick Law, sketched by George Henry Hutton in the 1780s Monastery information Other Names North Berwick priory, North Berwick n …
60Alien priory — Priory Pri o*ry, n.; pl. {Priories}. [Cf. LL. prioria. See {Prior}, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also {cell}, and {obedience}. See {Cell}, 2. [1913… …