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noun:
- a residential district of persons, specifically monks, limited by vows to a religious life and frequently surviving in partial or full seclusion.
- The dwelling host to these types of a residential area.
- Place of residence for members of a religious community (especially monks).
- a home of spiritual pension, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more hardly ever put on these types of a residence for females.
- A house or other host to residence occupied in common by individuals seeking religious seclusion from globe: frequently put on these types of a house exclusively employed by monks.
- the residence of a religious community
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Synonym for "monastery"
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Phrases for "monastery"
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Hyponym for "monastery"
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Hypernym for "monastery"
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Cross Reference for "monastery"
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Urban Dictionary for "monastery"
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