as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows you can hear the bells of the priory from the other side of the village

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Recent Examples of priory When the Leominster stool was moved to its new position in the priory in 2004, locals held a service of penitence. Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 Hotels are equally swoon-worthy, such as the deeply romantic Hotel Fontevraud, the former priory in the historic monument of Fontevraud Royal Abbey, which dates to the 12th century. Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022 Much of the monk's writing concerned the priory's day-to-day operations—including a detailed account of rebuilding the cathedral's choir after a fire in 1174—as well as disputes with neighboring houses and an Archbishop of Canterbury. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2022 With the trip, VistaJet Members call La Verrière, a wine estate and ninth-century priory, their home base. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2021 See all Example Sentences for priory 
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Noun
  • As a result, the area is especially rich in monasteries that, Dalla Ragione knew, had old gardens and orchards that had escaped the farm consolidations over the past half-century thanks to their isolated locations—and their unwillingness to sell their land to agribusiness.
    Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Originally a 17th-century imperial palace, the Lama Temple was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 1744.
    Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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  • During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But even within the cloisters of the monastery and behind the walls of its garden, with the city outside, there is also a solitude around each of the monks.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
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  • All guests of La Ferme have access to the facilities of the abbey and a shuttle is available to transport them back and forth.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The Irish monk Columba settled on Iona in the sixth century and founded an abbey that became a center of Gaelic Christianity.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

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“Priory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priory. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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