monastery

«monastery» in Mova's school dictionary: A building or group of buildings where monks live, pray… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a monastery, monasteries)

meaning for a pupil

1) A building or group of buildings where monks live, pray and work together under religious rules. tree →

2) (history) Such a place as a centre of learning, farming and copying books in the Middle Ages. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, monasteries such as Lindisfarne and Iona were places where monks copied books by hand and were attacked by Vikings; Henry VIII closed many English monasteries. In religious education, monasteries exist in Christianity and in Buddhism. Phrases: «live in a monastery», «a ruined monastery», «monastery garden», «dissolution of the monasteries».

examples

• The monks in the monastery get up early to pray. tree →
• We visited the ruins of an old monastery on the island. tree →
• Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne. tree →
• In the Middle Ages monks in the monastery copied books by hand. tree →
• There is a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Tibet. tree →
• The monastery garden grew herbs for medicine. tree →
• Henry VIII closed the monasteries and took their land. tree →
• Planudes, however, was no mere recluse, shut up in his monastery. tree →

note

Plural «monasteries» (y → ies). A place for monks; a place for nuns is usually a «convent» or «nunnery». «Abbey» and «priory» are kinds of monastery. Adjective: «monastic». Spelling: monast-ery (ends in -ery, not -ary).

In the corpora

• In 793 Vikings raided the monastery of Lindisfarne in England, and this is often called the start of the Viking Age.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «monastery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.